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By my count we are twelve out from the Alexandrian denarius.
next up: new cheap but artistically beautiful

 

This one was from a few years back. It's a favorite!


Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.
Roman AR denarius, 3.26g, 17.2 mm, 5 h.
Rome, AD 161.
Obv: DIVVS ANTONINVS, head of Antoninus Pius, bare, right, with drapery on left shoulder.
Rev: CONSECRATIO, ustrinum of four tiers decorated with garlands and statues and surmounted by a quadriga.
Refs: RIC 438; BMCRE 60-64; RSC 164a; RCV 5193; MIR 24.
Notes: Also struck with a right-facing bare head (no drapery) portrait.

Next: Funerary motif.

 

also available in bronze:



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NEXT : Fides Militum or Exercitus

 

next Follis Trier

 

Constantius I, Caesar, 293-305.
Roman billon follis, 9.95 g, 26.6 mm, 11 h.
Trier, AD 296-97.
Obv: CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head right.
Rev: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae; A/Γ//TR.
Refs: RIC vi, p. 183, 218a; Cohen 61; RCV 14035.

Next: Modius on head.

 

next: Geta

 

Ionia. Ephesos. Geta AD 198-211. Bronze Æ18 mm., 3,86 g.
(209-211). Ae.
Obv: Λ CEΠ ΓETAC KAI.
Bare headed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: EΦECIΩN.
Stag standing right.
Karwiese 553. SNG Cop 428

Next - Ephesos

 

The famous Artemis temple ! (under Antoninus Pius)

NEXT : famous monument

 

Trajan's column

Next, another famous monument.

 

As of Nero: the Temple of Janus in Rome, with closed doors. Opening or closing sacred doors is a religious ritual which has survived today in Rome, more majorum. In pontifical basilicas there is a closed "Porta Santa" the Pope (Pontifex Maximus) opens to mark the beginning of a Jubilee Year, and that he closes when the Holy Year is over. In ancient Rome the ritual opening of the Janus temple doors was performed when Rome was at war somewhere in the world, and when peace was obtained the emperor (Pontifex Maximus too) ceremoniously closed these doors. When, under Nero, peace was concluded with the Parthian Empire, Nero closed the doors of the temple of Janus which was situated on the Forum.
The coin legend is a long sentence beginning on the obverse and continued on the reverse : Imp(erator) Nero Caesar Aug(ustus) Germanic(us), / pace P(opulo) R(omano) ubiq(ue) parta, Ianum clusit : The emperor Nero Caesar Augustus Germanicus, having procured the Roman People peace everywhere, closed Janus.

NEXT : Pax

 

Vespasian sestertius with Pax, denoting the end of civil war.

Next, propaganda

 

One of my favorite LRBs.



Constans AD 337-350. Siscia
Follis Æ
19 mm, 2,06 g
RIC VIII Siscia 232
Date Range: AD 348 - AD 350
Obv: D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG, bust of Constans, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right / Rev: FEL•TEMP•REPARATIO, Phoenix, radiate, standing right on rocky mound. Mintmark ΓSIS•

Next - another coin informing us that happy times are restored.

 

next: another fallen horseman

 

Fallen horseman from Ceylon!

Next- an imitation.

 

Eastern Celtic imitation of a Paeonian tetradrachm...



Next...trouncing the enemy.

 

Lucius Verus, 161-169 A.D.

Type: AE As, 25.5 mm 12.1 grams, R1 according to ACSearch

Obverse: L VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, Bare-Headed Bust Facing Right

Reverse: TRP IIII IMP II COS III, Emperor on Horseback Charging right holding spear, riding down foe.

Reference: TBD, not in Wildwinds - edit: RIC 1404, rare type





Verus' sestertius