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GALLIENUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
REVERSE: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp or Capricorn right, N below
Struck at Rome, Sole Reign, 267-268 AD
2.2g, 17mm
RIC 245

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Here's a new acquisition.

Claudius II Gothicus, silvered antoninianus, 268-270 AD, Rome.
RIC 54
2.65 grams

Obverse: IMP CLAVDIVS PF AVG Bust of Claudius Gothicus, radiate, cuirassed, right.

Reverse: IOVI STATORI Jupiter, nude, standing right, holding staff in right hand and thunderbolt in left hand.



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A Claudius II Gothicus that fits your description (IOVI STATORI) but not the coin (IOVI VICTORI).



Next : Jupiter Stator

 

Oops! You're right. I need to pay more attention to these legends!

 

If we want to keep this going, let's keep the options on a simpler side, not obscure.

Not all of us have "Jupiter Stator".


Septimius Severus (193 - 211 A.D.)
AR Tetradrachm
SELEUCIS and PIERIA
Laodicea ad Mare
O: AVT KAI CЄOVHPOC CЄ, laureate and draped bust right, seen from side.
R: ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Γ, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. 208-9 A.D.
11.61g
28mm
McAlee, Severan Group 3, 25; Prieur 1149; Bellinger 52

Any Silver coin

 

Silver Denarius of Optimo Princeps, Trajan! I got a good deal on this bad boy because the legend is mostly illegible in hand. It doesn't help that much of it is spilling off of the flan. Still a beauty! Next coin: a very bad emperor

TRAJAN AR silver denarius. Rome, 103-111 AD. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate head of Trajan right, drapery on left shoulder. Reverse - COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Victory advancing left on pile of shields, wreath upward in right hand, palm in left. RIC II 129. 18mm, 3.4g.

 

Bad emperor? Bad boy? Pontius Pilatus would say : "Here's your guy !"


Bassianus, AKA Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, AKA Elagabalus (reigned 218-222). Compared to his parties, Caligula's orgies seemed like Victorian era Calvinist Sundays.

Next : Carthage

 

MAXIMIANUS
AE Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right
REVERSE: FELIX ADVENT AVGG N N, Africa standing facing, looking left, wearing elephant-skin headdress, holding standard and elephant's tusk, lion with captured bull at feet, H in right field, mintmark PKB
Struck at Carthage. AD 298
9.1g, 28mm
RIC VI 25b

Next: Maximianus

 

For being named after such great emperors, he really turned out poorly.

 

Maximian, follis (with very light traces of silvering), Rome 300-301

Obv.: IMP C MAXIMINANVS P F AVG, laur. head right
Rev.: SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN / [.] club, Moneta, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand

RIC VI Rome 100b

Next : more Maximian

 

I think this young man (emperor at 14, assassinated at 18) has been ill-famed by history, but actually was not the debauchery record breaker depicted by Cassius Dio or the late 4th c. author of the Historia Augusta. Everyone who ever had a teenage son will see what I mean.

 

Right, the Emperors of Rome podcast (my main source of information) has reiterated time and again that Cassius Dio is known for blowing things out of proportion because that's what people want to read. They also say that the Historia Augusta is not as reliable as would be preferred. Either way, we know for sure that Elagabalus is definitely not the archetypical roman emperor. Even so, who knows what would have happened had he matured a bit.

 

I asked an AI to make an image of a coin of Maximian, I don't think this counts so I'm not going to change it. Kind of cool, though.

 

Maximian (286 - 305, 306 - 308, and 310 A.D)
Ӕ Antoninianus
O: IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS AVG , radiate , draped bust right .
R: CONCORDIA MILITVM, Maximianus standing right holding sceptre, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter standing left, holding long sceptre, Epsilon in lower centre. •XXI• in exergue.
Heraclea mint, 293 A.D.
21mm
4.8g
RIC V 607 E, Cohen 53

Next: Antoninus Pius

 

Next: Faustina the younger

 

Faustina Jr. (147 - 175 A.D.)Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
O: Draped bust right
R:Isis Pharia standing right, holding sistrum and billowing sail; L I Z (Year 17) across field.
Stuck 153-154 A.D.
12g
23mm
Dattari (Savio) 3250; K&G 38.86; Emmett 1949.17.

Ex. Roma Numismatics E-Sale 16; Lot 306. Feb. 28, 2015
Ex. Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auction 247; Lot 4627. March 10, 2017

Next: Severus Alexander

 

Next up: Gordian III

 

NEXT: Any dupondius

 

NERVA
AE Dupondius
OBVERSE: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P Radiate head right
REVERSE: FORTVNA AVGVST S-C, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia
Struck at Rome, 96AD
8.8g, 26mm
RIC 61

Next: Fortuna

 

Nerva, AE sestertius, Rome AD 96
Obv.: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P, laur. head r.
Rev.: FORTVNA AVGVST / S C, Fortuna standing l. holding rudder and cornucopia
RIC II Nerva 60 (sestertius)

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