Fortuna Redux

I don't want to kill the thread either but will add a couple more varieties of Eastern Septimius Severus coins as Fortuna Redux is a regular theme with these issues.

Obv:– L SEPT SEV PE[RT AVG IMP] II, Laureate head right
FORT RDEVC, Fortuna, seated left, holding cornucopia and sceptre
Minted in Laodicea-ad-Mare. A.D. 194-195
References:– BMCRE W430 (same reverse die). RIC 450 (S). RSC 153g




Obv:– L SEP SEV PERET AVG IMP II, Laureate head right
Rev:– FORT R-E-DVC, Fortuna standing left holding cornucopiae in both hands
Minted in Laodicea-ad-Mare. A.D. 194
Reference:- BMCRE -. RIC -. RSC-.




Obv:– IMP CA L SE SEV PER AG COS II, Laureate head right
Rev:– FORT REDVC, Fortuna standing left, holding long scepter & cornucopia
Minted in Emesa, A.D. 194
References:– RIC -. BMCRE -. RSC -.

 

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I, too, Fortuna on the coin, but what's the coin I could not identify. And I could not tell colleagues - numismatists.

 

A beautiful portrait of Vespasian. Expressive!

 

JA is a good source of "new words"!

 

tutelary
While I agree in the honoring of JA's vocabulary, lets also point out that Diocletian had a coin to honor Jupiter as a protector IOVI TVTATORI AVGG so tutelary is not an unreasonable word for a numismatist to know.

 

Sweet OP-score, JA (congrats)

Ummm, I have an example too ...

Elagabalus & Fortuna

 

A couple Marc Antony's:

Mark Antony. 42 BC. AR Denarius. Rome mint. C. Vibius Varus, moneyer. Bare head of Mark Antony right, wearing short beard / Fortuna, draped, standing left, holding Victory in outstretched right hand and cradling cornucopia in left arm; C • VIBIVS on right, VARVS on left. Crawford 494/32; CRI 149; Sydenham 1144; Kestner 3739-40; BMCRR Rome 4293-4; RSC 4




Marc Antony. Early 41 BC. AR Denarius. Military mint traveling with Antony in Asia Minor. Bare head right; ANT AVG • IMP III • V • R • P • C / Fortuna Redux standing left, holding rudder in right hand and cradling cornucopia in left arm; at feet to left, stork standing left; PIETAS • COS below. Crawford 516/2; CRI 241; RSC 77; Sydenham 1174; Kestner –; BMCRR Gaul 70.

 

The little stork is wonderful!

 

Hadrian Sestertius Roma 117 AD Fortuna
Reference.
Strack 509; Cohen 753; RIC 543 var. (CAESAR) ; Banti 416 var.

Obv. IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG
Laureate, nude bust right, aegis on left shoulder and across back of neck, baldric (sword) strap around neck and across chest, loop on shoulder, seen from front.

Rev. PONT MAX TR POT COS DES II S C FORT RED
Fortuna, draped, seated left on low seat, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopiae in left.

27.37 gr.
32 mm.

 

Hadrian Denarius Roma 118 AD Fortuna
Reference.
Strack 35; RIC 41a; C.745.

Obv. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG
laureate bust right, draped on far shoulder with Aegis, seen from front

Rev. P M TR P COS II in Ex FORT RED
Fortuna seated left, holding rudder & cornucopiae.

3.18 gr
18 mm

 

Wow Oki, great Hadrian examples ...

=> man, you really are the King of the Hadrian coins, eh?

 

Geta had the chillest Fortuna Redux. If you don't count Tyche on provincial coins, I believe it's only on his denarii that she's ever seen in a reclining pose.

 

I believe this is the Fortuna Reduci mentioned earlier. She is often depicted with a wheel, which is also an emblem of Nemesis.

 

Nemesis was one of the deities whose attributes were assimilated by Tyche-Fortuna. You can see the wheel under Fortuna's throne on coins from the time of Marcus Aurelius.

 

... thanks dawg, that's interesting

 

They all get jumbled together in Roman religion don't they?. I understand there was also A Fortuna Salutaris, returning health, and Fortuna Balnearis the Fortuna of bath houses! Returning rubber duckies?