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FAUSTINA MINORAR Denarius
OBVERSE: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right
REVERSE: SAECVLI FELICIT, throne (Pulvinar) upon which sits Commodus and Antoninus
Struck at Rome, 161-175 AD
3.22g, 17mm
RIC 712 (Aurelius) RSC 190

Nest: Throne

 

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Here's a posthumous sestertius of Faustina II - RIC 1711:


Obv. Veiled & draped bust right, DIVAE FAVSTINAE PIAE.
Rev. Faustina seated left, holding globe surmounted by phoenix and sceptre; before her, three standards, MATRI CASTRORVM S C

NEVER MIND - too late:

NEXT - (as Bing's post above) - THRONE

 

Trajan, Ruled 98-117 AD
AE26, Syria, Seleucis, Seleucia Pieria
Obverse: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС ΑΡΙСΤ СΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head right.
Reverse: СΕΛΕΥΚΕωΝ ΠΙΕΡΙΑС, filleted thunderbolt set on a pulvinar (cushioned stool or throne) of Jupiter (represented by the thunderbolt); Γ below stool.
References: RPC 3782, Butcher 47
Size: 26mm, 12.92g

Next: Filleted Thunderbolt

 

Antiochus IX. 114 BC. Next : Owl on Amphora.

 

What's a filleted thunderbolt?

 

Here's an owl on an amphora - New Style tetradrachm:


Next - another Athena.

 

I believe it means it is strapped together, or to have a strap, or similar? I've seen "fillet" used as hanging straps off of cornucopia and spears.

 

It means bound - should be some bindings around the thunderbolt

 

Was my thunderbolt suitable?

 

Your's looks maybe more winged (?; or just a regular ol' ancient thunderbolt of the gods) than filleted, but it works

 

Time of Seleukos I. Apamaea -Bithynia. Nrxt : Phoenician Stater.

 

Silver Stater showing Melkart with reverse of Phoenician galley and lettering. Next : Lighthouse.

 

Commodus AE Corinth
17 mm 4.22g
Lighthouse right, galley with rowers left


Next : a nice galley please

 

Boaty McBoaty...

RI Allectus 293-296 AE Quinarius London Virtus Galley AE17 2-3g S 13870 RIC 55

Next up: lizard

 

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nikopolis ad Istrum. Caracalla
Ovinius Tertullus, legatus consularis.
AE 28, 13.05 gm
Obv: AV K M AVP ANTΩNINOC; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: VΠA OOVI TEPTOVΛΛOV ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟC Ι; Apollo Sauroktonos standing right, holding laurel branch and leaning hand upon a tree stump with a lizard climbing up it.
Ref: H&J 8.18.7.1; Varbanov -.

Next: Nikopolis

 

Septimius and Julia Domna AE assarion Nikopolis


Next: husband and wife on opposite sides of the same coin

 

Agrippina II & Claudius Provincial Mints
Bronze 49/50, Ephesus in Ionia. RPC 2621

Next up: some poor schlub who married a much younger bride... And it didn't end up so well for him.
Edit: oooh! Or relative. she was Claudius's niece.

 

Claudius married a much younger wife, Messalina, then beheaded her when she cheated on him. Looks like Claudius had sent real poor judgment when it came to wives.

Up Next: Another 1st century imperial bronze stripped of patina.

 

Patina and bronze disease gone:
Titus sestertius Spes

Next: Patina free red copper

 

Not sure if this is red enough, but I did strip it my self.

Caligula
37/38 AD
AE AS
Obvs: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT
Revs: VESTA SC
28mm, 11.44g
Ref: RIC 38

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