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ANCIENT SRI LANKA


Sri Lanka,
excavated in Anuradhapura
Anonymous, 1st C. BCE
PB 1/8 Lakshmi
1.1g, 14.1mm x 7.8mm
RARE
OBV: Hindu Goddess Lakshmi facing. She is the goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity. She was a beauty and the wife of Vishnu
REV: (blank)
Comment: "Lakshmi (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मी, lakṣmī,ˈləkʂmiː) is the Hindu goddess of wealth, fortune and prosperity. She is the wife and shakti(energy) of Vishnu, a major god in Hinduism.[2] Lakshmi is also an important deity in Jainism and found in Jain temples.[3] Lakshmi was also a goddess of abundance and fortune for Buddhists, and was represented on the oldest surviving stupas and cave temples of Buddhism.[4][5] In Buddhist sects of Tibet, Nepal and southeast Asia, goddess Vasudharamirrors the characteristics and attributes of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi with minor iconographic differences." -Wikipedia.org


Next: Non-Roman, Non-Greek, Non-Persian Non-Carthage God / Goddess

 

Baby Krishna dancing on an evil snake.

Next, a god/goddess killing someone.

 

Gallienus 253-268 AD.
Cilicia, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Æ
Obv: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r.
Rev: Athena advancing r., holding spear and shield, about to strike a serpent-legged giant.
29mm, 8.42g, 6h
SNG BnF 1066; SNGLevante 789.

Next: A battle scene.

 

I’ve already posted my Paeonian tet to the thread so I’ll have to go with my Falling Horseman here.


Next: An under-appreciated coin design.

 

This is of course very subjective. I always considered the coinage of the "Gallic emperors" under-appreciated from an artistic point of view. Maybe it's because it is so common and has been so awkwardly imitated. Let's take just an example, this Tetricus II antoninianus, minted in Cologne or somewhere else in Southern Gaul :

Obv.: C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, draped and cuirassed radiate bust right
Rev.: SPES AVGG, Spes walking left holding flower

The reverse type is a schematic reinterpretation of an extremely common reverse used by many emperors since Claudius I. It obviously depicts a statue which was in Rome. On first and second century sestertii (the most detailed depictions) we can see that this statue of Spes was probably of archaic style, like the terracotta monumental Apollo of Veii of the late 6th c. BC that was discovered in the workshop of an Etruscan sculptor at Veii. On this 3rd c. AD Gallic die, the traditional image is stylized in a way that reminds us of the older Celtic coinage: nothing but curves, S, spirals, the only straight line being the neck of the goddess. The result is very elegant.

NEXT : Spes

 

I really wanted this coin as I had no Spes or Carus in my collection


Carus AD 282-283. Struck December AD 282 - February AD 283. Ticinium
Antoninianus Æ
22 mm, 3,36 g
IMP CARVS P F AVG, bust of Carus, radiate, cuirassed, right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes, draped, walking left, holding flower in right hand and raising robe with left hand
Mintmark: /-//SXXI
RIC V Carus 82
Next - Carus

 

CARUS
AE Antoninianus. 3.54g, 22.6mm. Rome mint, AD 283. RIC 47; Cohen 15. O: DIVO CARO, radiate bust right. R: Eagle with spread wings facing front, head left; KAA in exergue.
Ex Old Sable Collection; ex Rauch 87 (2010), lot 816

Next: Another bald/balding portrait

 

Toward the end of Severus' reign and in the early part of Caracalla's stint on the throne, Julia Domna adopted a different hairstyle, perhaps necessitated by a form of hair loss (see video, below). The bun is reduced in size and she has begun to incorporate a braided border of hair to frame the sides and bottom of the coiffure, which foreshadows her later "helmet-style" hairdo. Typically, a ringlet of hair peeks out from the helmet to adorn her cheek.





Next: Hilaritas.

 

TETRICUS I
Antoninianus
OBVERSE:IMP TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: HILARITAS AVGG, Hilaritas standing left, holding long branch and cornucopiae
Struck at Cologne, 273-4 AD
3.8g, 19mm
RIC 80

Next: Tetricus II

 

Tetricus II, antoninianus, Cologne or Southern Gaul.
ev.: PIETAS AVGVSTOR

Next : Wahballath

 

Next: Oriens AVG reverse (in commemoration of Aurelian's victory over Palmyra).

 

Next, Aurelian denarius.

 

Nicely silvered @JayAg47 !

 

Aurelian Denarius.


Aurelian, AD 270-275.
Roman billon denarius, 1.66 g, 15.7 mm, 11 h.
Rome mint, officina 5, issue 11, early – September AD 275.
Obv: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: VICTORIA AVG, Victory walking left, holding wreath and palm; at feet to left, a bound and seated captive; –/–//∈.
Refs: RIC 73 var.; MER/RIC temp 1680; Cohen 255 var.; RCV 11643; CBN 283-84; La Venera 1508-9.

Next: Your favorite Aurelian.

 

Aurilion


Next: another lion thatis NOT the major type (smaller the better)

 

Spot the lion:


POPPAEA
AE17. 3.3g, 16.7mm. PHRYGIA, Acmoneia, circa AD 62. Lucius Servenius Capito, archon, with his wife Julia Severa. RPC I 3175. O: ΠOΠΠAIA CEBACTH, Draped bust of Poppaea to right, wearing wreath of grain ears; before, forepart of lion to right. R: CEPOYHNIOY KAΠITΩNOC - KAI IOYΛIAC / CEOYHPAC – AKMONEΩN, Artemis advancing right, holding bow in her left hand and drawing arrow from quiver with her right; to left, monogram; to right, monogram above lyre.

Next: Another coin bearing the name of a woman who was not a deity or member of the royal family

 

12 hr. rule. Next: Bust of Helios, not from Rhodes/Islands off Caria. Like this one, the first of my NYINC acquisitions I've had a chance to write up:

Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 14 (129/130 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Radiate and draped bust of Helios right, L - ΙΔ (Year 14) across fields. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 5737 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5737 ; Emmett 852.14 [Emmett, Keith, Alexandrian Coins (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1280 [Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins (Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 584 at p. 71 [Poole, Reginald Stuart, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria (London, 1892)] (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_CR-1075); Sear RCV II 3735; K&G 32.478 (ill. p. 136) [Kampmann, Ursula & Ganschow, Thomas, Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria (2008)]. Purchased Jan. 14, 2022 from Pars Coins at 2022 NYINC; ex. Pegasus Numismatics (Nick Economopoulos). 26x23 mm., 10.51 g.

 

Gallienus, BI tetradrachm of Alexandria.

Next : Valerian

 

Valerian I AR Antoninianus.Rome AD 255-256 ...2.93g
Obverse..IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS PF AVG, radiate, draped bust right
Reverse..FELICITAS AVGG, Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and cornucopiae.
RIC 87, Cohen 55; Sear 9936.


Next...One of his grandsons.