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Tiberius, AE As, 15-16 AD, Rome Mint [bronze equivalent of “Tribute Penny” design]. Obv. Bare head right, TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST[VS?] IMP VII / Rev. Draped female figure [Tiberius’s mother Livia, or Livia as Pax or Justitia]* seated right, head covered, with feet on stool, holding long sceptre with left hand and patera with extended right hand, PONTIF MAXIM TRIBVN POTEST XVII, S-C across fields. RIC I Tiberius 33 if AVGVST [listed as “R3”; see p. 96] or RIC 35 if AVGVSTVS [listed as R2]; BMCRE I Tiberius 65 [or 66 if AVGVSTVS]; cf. Sear RCV I 1769 (var. with Tiberius facing left). 28 mm., 10.9 g. Purchased from Felicitas.Perpetua Numismatics, UK, July 2021.



*See RIC I Tiberius, Introduction at p. 87: “As a type, the ‘Pontif. Maxim.’ design was far from informative. Modern scholars are not agreed upon its interpretation, some regarding the seated female figure as Livia in the guise of Pax, some as Pax-Justitia, some simply as the priestess Livia, revered as the wife of the first imperial pontifex maximus and the stepmother of the second. Its significance in the ancient world can hardly have been much more immediate than it is to the modern, and it was probably viewed as a type suggesting (in association with the legend) nothing more definite than sanctity.”

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Edit: Donna beat me to it. So Imperial bronze of Tiberius it is.

 

next: Tiberiius denarius

 

Tiberius, Denarius - Lyon mint, after 15-16 AD
TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGUSTUS, Laureate head of Tiberius right
PONTIF MAXIM, Woman seated right on a throne (Livia ?) and holding sceptre
3.71 gr
Ref : RIC # 30, RCV #1763, Cohen #16

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next: VIC PAR on shield

 

MARCUS AURELIUS, Sestertius
Rome, 166
S 5010 - C 807 - RIC 931
M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, Laureate head right
TR POT XX IMP IIII COS III, Victory standing right, holding palm and placing shield on palm tree; VIC PAR on shield; S C in fields

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Macrianus.

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next: Aesculapius

 

Severus Alexander, AE 22, AD 218-222, Mysia, Parion. Obv. Laureate bust right, wearing cuirass with Gorgoneion, seen from front, IMP CAEƧ L ƧEP ƧEV ALEXANDER (all S retrograde) / Rev. Asklepios seated right on throne, with right hand extended, holding and examining raised right fore-hoof of bovid (cow or bull) standing left with head raised towards his face, DEO AE ƧVB above, C G H I P [Colonia Gemella Hadriana Iulia Pariana] in exergue.* RCP VI Online 3871 (temp.) (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3871). 20.03 mm., 4.24 g. Purchased from Lodge Antiquities, UK, Jan. 2022.



*According to RCP VI 3871, the (blundered) reverse legend “is presumably an attempt at DEO AESCVLAP.” But see https://www.forumancientcoins.com/c...p?param=85231q00.jpg&vpar=1901&zpg=91146&fld=, stating that DEO AE ƧVB stands for “Deo Aesculapius subvenienti - to Aesculapius, the god who helps.”

Next, cow. Or heifer. No bull. (Ox or steer? Use your judgment.)

 

Here's a heifer.

Obv.: ACISCVLVS - Head of Apollo Soranus right, legend and pickaxe behind, star above
Rev.: Valeria Luperca on heifer right, holding veil
Exergue: L. VALERIVS
Mint: Rome (45 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.60g / 19mm / 11h
References:

• RSC 17 (Valeria)
• Sydenham 998
• Crawford 474/1a

Acquisition: Numismatica Tintinna Asta Elettronica 29 #1098 18-Jul-2013


Next - another woman being carried away on a bovine

 

Augustus, 27 BC - AD 14.
Roman provincial AE 23.
Macedon, Amphipolis, 10.25 g, 23.3 mm, 1 h.
Obv: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ, bare-head, right.
Rev: ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛΙΕΙΤΩΝ, Artemis Tauropolos with inflated veil, riding on bull galloping right.
Refs: BMC 5, p. 52, 73; Sear Greek Imperial 29.

Next: Augustus on a provincial.

 

Next up: another Roman coin from Spain

 

Spain, Italica. Tiberius AE29. Inscribed altar
Tiberius AE29 of Italica, Spain. TI CAESAR AVGVSTVS PONT MAX IMP, bare head right / MVNIC ITALIC PERM DIVI AVG, altar inscribed PROIDENTIAE AVGVSTI.

Next: Tiberius provincial.

 

Antioch - Tiberius

Next up : Augustus from Antioch

 

12-hour rule.

I have no Augustus from Antioch, but here's an Augustus from Pergamum, which is usually classified both as an Imperial and a Provincial coin:

Augustus, AR Cistophoric tetradrachm [ = three denarii]*, 27-26 BCE, Province of Asia [NW Asia Minor], Mysia, Pergamum[?] Mint. Obv. Bare head right, IMP•CAESAR downwards behind, lituus before / Rev. Capricorn** swimming right with head turned back to left, cornucopiae on its back, AVGVSTVS below; all within a laurel wreath tied in bow at bottom. RIC I Augustus 488 (2nd ed. 1984) [see http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.488]; RSC I Augustus 16a (3rd ed. 1978) (ill. p. 132); RPC I Online 2208 [see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2208]; Sear RCV I 1585; Sutherland Group IIIβ, nos 87–98a [see Sutherland, C.H.V., The Cistophori of Augustus (London, 1970)]; BMCRE I Augustus 698; BMCRR II (East) 287. 26 mm., 11.7 g. Purchased Feb. 2022 from Wessex Coins, UK. [Footnotes omitted.]



Next, another Augustus cistophorus.

 

Very nice coin Donna!


AUGUSTUS, Cistophorus
Ephesus, c. 24-20 B.C.
11.77 g - 26 mm
IMP.CAESAR, Bare head right
AVGVSTVS, Altar hung with wreaths and garlanded; on front two hinds standing right and left facing one another.

Next: another cistophorus, not Augustus.

 

next: Mysia Pergamon

 

Mysia, Pergamon. Alliance with Ephesos. AE34 of Commodus
Obv: laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.
Rev: to l., Asclepius standing, facing, (head, r.), holding serpent-staff; to r., cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus standing, facing, wearing kalathos, having supports.
34mm and 20.8g.
Howgego 70, Caracalla laureate, and reported on 114 coins from Pergamum.
Howgego 811 meaning revalued to 6 assarii, and reported on
32 coins from Ephesus.

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Was just rolling this one through my fingers thinking, "is this my favorite ancient coin?"
But later I'll pick up another and ask, "is this my favorite ancient coin?

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