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Nerva, "Divi series" antoninianus minted by Trajan Decius - Rome mint AD 250/251
DIVO NERVE (sic !) Radiate head right
CONSECRATIO Eagle facing
4.45 gr
Ref : RIC IV # 83b, Cohen # 152, RCV # 9467
in qblay's catalog : NE06/A052
See G&M auction # 170/2123, same dies

Next : a "Divo" of some sort

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edit - too late!
But a divus is fine



Divus Vespasian after AD 79. Rome
Denarius AR
19 mm, 2,71 g
RIC II, Part 1 (second edition) Titus 357;OLD RIC II Titus 63; RSC Titus 497
Date Range: AD 80 - AD 81
Obv: DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, Head of Divus Vespasian, laureate, right / Rev: Capricorns, left and right, back to back, supporting round shield inscribed S C; globe, below

Next - a coin with pontifical implements

 

Nerva, AD 96-98.
Roman AR denarius, 3.37 g, 16.6 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 97.
Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR POT, laureate head, right.
Rev: COS III PATER PATRIAE, Priestly implements (simpulum, aspergillum, jug, lituus).
Refs: RIC 24, BMCRE 33-35; Cohen 48; RCV 3023; CBN 24.

Next: A jug as a prominent design element.

 

Roman Republic, Q. Cassius Longinus, AR Denarius, 55 BCE [Crawford] or 53 BCE [Harlan], Rome Mint. Obv. Young male head of Genius Populi Romani [Crawford & RCV] or Bonus Eventus [RSC & RRM II] right, with flowing hair, scepter behind, border of dots / Rev. Eagle, with wings spread, standing right on thunderbolt, lituus [curved augural staff used in reading auspices] to left and capis [jug used in same rituals] to right, border of dots; Q • CASSIVS in exergue. Crawford 428/3, RSC I Cassia 7 (ill.), Sydenham 916, Sear RCV I 391 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 23 at pp. 180-187, BMCRR Rome 3868. 19 mm., 3.77 g., 6 h.*



* According to Crawford (Vol. I at p. 452), the eagle, lituus, and capis together symbolized imperium. He suggests that they refer to the Lex Cassia of 104 BCE, introduced by L. Cassius Longinus, under which individuals who had been deprived of imperium by popular vote, or had been convicted of a crime in a popular assembly, were excluded from the Senate. This coin is also discussed in Roberta Stewart, The Jug and Lituus on Roman Republican Coin Types: Ritual Symbols and Political Power, in Phoenix Vol. 51, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 170-189 at pp. 181-182 (DOI: 10.2307/1088493, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1088493). The author notes that the eagle and thunderbolt were “auspical signs associated with Jupiter, the god of the auspices,” and that both moneyers in 55 BCE were adherents of Pompey, “whose position in 56-55 was problematical.” Thus, the coin’s allusion to these traditional symbols of political power -- reading auspices was a predicate to the conduct of public business -- “identif[ied] Pompey’s desire for political and military prestige with the political and religious values of Rome.”

Next, another coin with an eagle and thunderbolt.

 

Next up: green patina

 

Next: lovely cabinet toning.

 

I fell for the golden toning on this denarius of Domitian as Caesar.

next, another coin of Domitian as Caesar...

 

Domitian (Caesar, 69-81) AR Denarius, Rome, 77-78
CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS - laureate head right
Rev: COS V - Soldier on horseback rearing right, raising right hand.
RIC 957 (Vespasian); C 49a
Old RIC 242 (S
2,57 g, 18 mm


Next - another coin from a Caesar period, before the ruler became Augustus

 

Here's one my my antoniniani of Philip II as Caesar.


I've always been suspicious of the surfaces of the coin, but I think it's fine, and I can't find any die matches to known fakes.

Next: A coin you're suspicious of...

 

(12h)

I more than suspect this one's a fourree (but I wanted it anyway):

Next: struck BC in Cilicia, or further east.

 

Elaiussa, Cilicia, AE22, 1st century BC /Nike
This coin is quite fortunately off center reverse which allowed the long city name to fit on the flan (not common for these).


Next: More Cilicia (I have several and I know some of you do, too!)

 

Cilicia

About the size of my 1/32nd Siglos


CILICIA Uncertn Early-mid 4th C BCE AR Tetartemorion 5mm 0.17g Persian king running dagger and bow - Crowned hd Achaemenid king CNG E239 Troxell Kagan 4

About the size of my 1/32nd Siglos


CILICIA Uncertn Early-mid 4th C BCE AR Tetartemorion 5mm 0.17g Persian king running dagger and bow - Crowned hd Achaemenid king CNG E239 Troxell Kagan 4

Next: Achaemenid

 

Next up: chunky archaic silver

 

Next: again Cilicia (or further east), BC.

 

Cilicia, Kelenderis AR Obol. 3rd century BC. Horse prancing right within beaded circle / Goat kneeling right, head right; KEΛ. Göktürk 9; SNG France 116-7 var. (goat left); SNG Levante 29.

Next - 2 animals on a coin

 

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251.
Roman provincial Æ 32.5 mm, 18.74 g, 6 h.
Cilicia, Tarsus, AD 249-251.
Obv: ΑV ΚΑΙ Γ ΜЄϹ ΚVΙΝ ΔЄΚΙΟϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ, Π Π, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: ΤΑΡϹΟV ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛЄΩϹ Γ Β, Α Μ Κ. Artemis standing right, drawing arrow from quiver and holding bow and arrow; at feet on either side, deer standing left and dog running right with raised paws, head left.
Refs: RPC 1346; SNG Levante 1156 ; SNG France 1754; SNG von Aulock 6065; SNG Cop 33; Ziegler 808.16.33; Lindgren III, 926.

Next: Another coin with two animals.

 

Next up: another boar

 

Boar v 2.0


10 mm., 1,04 g.
Klazomenai, Ionia, AR diobol. 499-494 BC. Forepart of winged boar right / Quatripartite incuse square. BMC 14; SNG von Aulock 1983; SNG Copenhagen 6-8; Sear 3503.

Next - another winged animal

 

next: hippocamp

 

NEXT: Trident as major design element