Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4565405, member: 85693&quot;]These are truly beautiful coins, and at the risk of junking up the thread, I&#039;m going to offer up one of my uglies.</p><p><br /></p><p>My justification for lowering standards is that this is a Bar Kochba issue, at least according to RIC:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The main denarius and aes types with VICTORIA AVG slogan (legend on denarii only - the aes with the same theme is anepigraphic) feature an unusual winged Victory <b>superstitiously lifting drapery to spit on her own chest</b> to ward off ill-fortune and syncretised with Pax in holding the branch of peace.&nbsp; This is the type of Nemesis (fate) which along with Justitia can be read as the Roman view of giving Bar Kochba and his rebellion their &#039;just deserts.&#039; </p><p><br /></p><p>Nemesis-Victory admittedly does not die link into the group but thematically it is clearly linked to the evens of 136.&quot;</p><p>(Richard Abdy, Peter Mittag, <i>Roman Imperial Coinage, Volume II, Part 3</i>, p. 27)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roman_Imperial_Coinage_II_3/D8nYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=bar+kokhba+hadrian+nemesis+sestertius&amp;pg=PA27&amp;printsec=frontcover#spf=1592069914989" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roman_Imperial_Coinage_II_3/D8nYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=bar+kokhba+hadrian+nemesis+sestertius&amp;pg=PA27&amp;printsec=frontcover#spf=1592069914989" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roman_Imperial_Coinage_II_3/D8nYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=bar+kokhba+hadrian+nemesis+sestertius&amp;pg=PA27&amp;printsec=frontcover#spf=1592069914989</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is a sestertius, and finding out that Nemesis-Victory is lifting her drapery in order to spit on her own chest pretty much made my week.&nbsp; Yuck, and yet how cool is that? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130478[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(136 (RIC); c. 134-138 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>[HADRI]ANVS AVG C[OS III P P], laureate head right / S-C, Pax-Nemesis advancing right, holding out fold of dress in apotropaic gesture and branch.</p><p>RIC II.3 2288 (RIC 779); Cohen 1374; BMC 1549.</p><p>(21.14 grams / 29 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in