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MAGNENTIUS


RI Magnentius 351-352 CE AE 1 CHI RHO

Next: Hanniballianus

(HOW could ANY Roman call their child by this name, when it is rooted in Roman history with vile and hatred towards this namesake???)

 

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Good question @Alegandron - good question! I watch college football here and there in the U.S. and the are two players in the pac-12 - one named Hasdrubal and the other Hamilcar, so maybe these names will become more popular with people starting families? I thought it a bit interesting as a phenomenon.

 

Yes, but Hannibal was a man of great ability, but also a honorable, decent human being. Julius Caesar/ Scipio Africanus/ Sulla/ Crassus where cruel towards their enemies/ and helped enslave the people they conquered. Truly great captains of history are respected by friend and foe alike. Good examples/ Napoleon/ Frederick the Great/ Robert E. Lee/ Erwin Rommel/ Paul Von Hindenberg/ Sulieman the Magnificent....
But on the otherhand, here you have the leader of the "Third Reich" copy most things Roman, forgetting that the Roman colonized Germania/ enslaved her people and if able would have erased it from history.

 

Agreed. They also performed genocide on the Celts of Gaul. Interesting how today we laude the Roman Empire, when Celts and Germans were obliterated. I enjoy the Roman Republic, for its incredible and amazing growth into an Empire. However, my heritage is German and Celt. I cannot get excited about the atrocities they performed at the expense of my heritage when they moved into the Imperial period.

 

Hannibalianus
335-337BCE. Follis (Bronze, 15mm, 1.19 g 6), Constantinople, 336-337. FL HANNIBALLIANO REGI Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Hannibalianus to right. Rev. SECVRITAS PVBLICA / CONSS Euphrates reclining right, leaning on scepter; urn at side and reed in background. RIC 147. Sharply struck and with a most attractive dark patina. Appears to have filled hole,, otherwise , good very fine.

Next up: Carthage

 

Carthage, AE17, late 4th or early 3rd c. BC, Sicilian mint. Obv: male head r., flanked by grain ears. Rev: galloping horse r. 17mm, 3.59g. Ref: MAA 19; SNG Copenhagen (Africa) 120; Sylloge Numorum Punicorum 128. Struck over MAA 18; Sylloge Nummorum Punicorum 194 (head of Tanit/horse standing in front of palm tree).

Same undertype without overstrike:


Carthage, AE17, ca. 400–350 BC, Carthage mint (?). Obv: Wreathed head of Tanit l. Rev: Horse standing r. in front of palm tree; to right, three pellets in triangle with another pellet below. 17mm, 3.64g. MAA 18 var.; SNP 194; SNG Copenhagen 118 var.

Next: overstrike with recognizable undertype

 

POSTUMUS
AE Double Sestertius. 21.88g, 32.6mm. Cologne mint, AD 261. RIC 169; Bastien 101-2. O: [IMP C M CASS LAT PO]STVMVS P F AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Postumus to right. R: [VICTORI]A AVG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in her right hand and palm in her left; captive seated to left before here.
Notes: "This coin was overstruck on a sestertius of Antoninus Pius, with part of the original obverse legend and the back of the head of Pius still visible on the obverse."

Next: Another usurper against Gallienus

 

Zeugitania, Carthage, 350-320 BC
AE Unit, Possibly from other mints (Sicily?)
Obverse: Palm tree, with two clusters of dates.
Reverse: Head of horse left (variation).
References: MAA 20 var (horse head left), SNG COP 102 var (same), Müller 317-318 var (same)
Size: 17mm, 3.10g
Notes: Overstruck on type MAA 15 (400-350 BC).


Zumbly beat me... What he said.

 

Postumus coin from Milan struck by Aureolus - VIRTVS EQUIT 2.26g, 19.5mm. Aureolus was proclaimed Emperor by the legions of Illyria in 267, and made himself master of Northern Italy, but he was defeated and slain in battle in 268, by Claudius II.

Struck by Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper, AD 267-268, Antoninianus, in the name of Postumus. Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 3rd officina. 3rd emission, mid AD 268.
Obv: Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Postumus right
Rev: Virtus advancing right, holding round shield and transverse spear

"While affairs were thus situated in the east, intelligence was brought to Gallienus, who was then occupied in the Scythian war, that Aurelian or Aureolus, who was commander of the cavalry posted in the neighborhood of Milan to watch the motions of Postumus, had formed some new design, and was ambitious to be emperor. Being alarmed at this he went immediately to Italy, leaving the command against the Scythians with Marcianus, a person of great experience in military affairs."
-Zosimus NH 1.40.1

Next: A coin from Gaul

 

Gaul/ Senones
AV Cross Stater ND
Struck circa 50-30BC
That coin is almost like a little globule of gold.
Chris Rudd cannot pinpoint a mint place
Next up: coin struck by Boii in Germania

 

I'll invoke the twelve hour rule to keep the game going. Since nobody has a coin struck by the Boii in Germania, I'll post a Germanicus ...


Germanicus, 15 BC - AD 19.
Roman Æ as, 11.18 g, 27.5 mm, 7 h.
Rome, issued under Caligula, AD 40-41.
Obv: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare-head of Germanicus, left.
Rev: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII P P around large SC.
Refs: RIC 50; BMCRE 74-78; Cohen 4; RCV 1822; CBN 123.
Note: Reverse die-match to Henry Cohen, Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain, Tome I, Paris, 1880, page 225, no. 4.

Next: Big S C on the reverse.

 

I think either of these might qualify as having a big enough SC on the reverse. Anyway, up next....Another 1st century big imperial bronze.

 

Very interesting. This double sestertius is probably also an overstrike. There is a blob at 5 o'clock on the reverse.





Next: Another usurper against Gallienus

 

No...you skipped a few. Up next it's another big imperial first century bronze.

 

Up next it's another big imperial first century bronze

GALBA - Sestertius


RI Galba AE Sestertius 69 CE SPQR - O.B - CIV.SER in Wreath

Next: Quinarius

 

INTERMISSION

I thought BOII GEORGE was from Britania???




Ok, Back to it:

Next: Quinarius

 

My roadkill Galba quinarius



Up next: Another imperial quinarius

 

Quinarius:

M. Cato AR Quinarius
ca. 89 B.C.
2.25 grams
Obv: Liber right
Rev: Victory seated
Grade: Pretty much as originally struck FDC(?). NGC label states MS with 5/5 strike and 4/5 surface.
Other: Relatively common RR in unusually high grade of preservation.

Next coin with a SEATED Nike / Victory

Edit to add:
Does anyone else see victory chill-laxin’ in a light blue Snuggie robe & lamb’s wool slippers operating the TV remote?

 

Just got home from trying to blow wet leaves in the rain....no fun! Snow tomorrow....need some global warming!

AV Solidus ND Thessalonika Mint
Arcadius (Useless Emperor)
Eastern Roman Empire
coin arrived yesterday/ looks better in hand!
coin from another useless Emperor...Honorius.

 

USELESS EMPEROR - HONORIUS


RI Honorius 393-343 AE3 15mm Arcadius and Honorius Stdg

Next: MORE USELESS EMPERORS