Its My Birthday, Lets See Some Ladies

Helena, AE4, Constantinople. 13.63mm, 1.1g

OBV: FL IVL HELE-NAE AVG, ornamental mantle and necklace, hair elaborately dressed.

REV: PAX PV-BLICA, Pax standing left holding branch and sceptre. Mintmark: CONS.

REF: RIC VIII Constantinople 38.

 

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Fausta AE Follis. Struck 325-326 AD. AE3, 20mm, 2.2g

OBV: FLAV MAX FAVSTA AVG, Draped bust right.

REV: SPES REIP-VBLICAE, Fausta standing facing, holding two children; mintmark dot SMK Gamma dot.

REF: LRBC 1186. RIC VII Cyzicus 50; Sear 16579.

 

Aelia Eudoxia AE3, Antioch, 383-408 AD, 2.3g, 17mm

OBV: AEL EVDO-XIA AVG, Pearl-diademed, draped bust right, wearing necklace and earrings, crowned by hand of God.

REV: SALVS REI-PVBLICAE, Victory seated right on cuirasse, pointing to a shield inscribed chi-rho which rests on a low column, Mintmark ANTG.

REF: RIC X 104

 

Zeugitana, Carthage. Circa 300-264 BC. AE 20mm. 5.5g

OBV: NO LEGEND: Wreathed head of Tanit left.

REV: NO LEGEND: Horse's head right.

REF: SNGCop 169

 

Happy 35th, Mat!

 

Magnia Urbica
AE Antoninianus.
Obv:– MAGNIA VRBICA AVG, Draped bust right on crescent, hair brushed in straight lines, plait carried up the back to top of head and running under stephane
Rev:– VENVS GENETRIX, Venus standing facing, head left, apple upward in right hand, vertical scepter in left
Minted in Lugdunum (A in left field).
RIC V pt. 2, 337 var (not listed from this officina). Bastien -, Bastien Supplement -, Bastien Supplement II 613α (2 examples cited)
23mm, 3.16g

 

I came to this thread, and I leave dissapointed....

 

You know I am not nearly the collector of the women as you are but I did recently get this modern beauty.

No, not Victoria --- the other side. The model for the seated Britannia was Frances Teresa Stewart (1647–1702), Dutchess of Richmond best known for refusing to be the mistress of king Charles II. While she was considered to be the greatest beauty of her time, she contracted smallpox and was horribly scarred. The Britannia for which she sat provided the reverse for millions of pre-decimalization pennies and fractions. There have been some similarly posed issues since decimalization and it is said that the face was changed on occasion (to and from Queen Anne?) so I'm not sure exactly how we are to tell the original beauty from a generic Britannia the lady does seem to have lasted well all things considered.

Next I'll offer my tooled fake of Zenobia of Palmyra who was also supposedly a beauty in her day before being deposed by Aurelian and faked here probably from an as of Titus. I suggest the nose on this item looks a bit more like Titus than like Zenobia but it is her name that ended up on the coin.


Next, in my parade of the unreal women of coins, are a few idealized beauties of the early Greek period.

Arathusa of Syracuse


An uncertain female facing and Aphrodite in profile of Tarsos


and later, three graces of the third century AD by Caracalla


Happy Birthday, Mat.

 

Happy Birthday! Thought Steve would have been the OP from the title...

 

What about the Amazon, Kyme...

Kyme, Aeolis, AR Tetradrachm
Obv:- Head of Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia
Rev:- Horse walking right, oinochoe below, ΚΥΜΑΙΟΝ left, ΚΑΛΛΙΑΣ (magistrate) in ex, all in wreath;
Ref:- SNG Von Aulock 1636, SNG Cop 103

weight 16.392g, maximum diameter 33.1mm, die axis 0o

 

Yeeeehhhaaaa => Happy 35th, brother Mat!!


Ummm, I think I should be able to find a handful of chicks to give ya the ol' Roman lap-dance (in no particular order ... just a bunch of fun-lovin' ladies!!)

 

Beautiful ladies everyone, Thanks.

The tooled Zenobia still makes me chuckle.

You know shes is pretty but when not in film, she dresses like a bag lady and is far from attractive. Odd, but I am still a fan of her & her husband.

 

A little late to the party:
Athena

Minerva


Roma

Tyche

 

I don't have any ancients, but here is one of my most favorite silver medals from Germany (reverse side):

 

Happy Birthday, Mat!!!

 

Great stuff, Bing, the Tyche is bold!

Medals are fine Hotpocket, and the medal is beautiful.

Thanks, Mike.

 

My best looking lady...

 

Venus


Sabina


Faustina I



Faustina Jr.


Lucilla

 

Julia Maesa


Julia Domna


Julia Mamaea

 

^ Nice additions, still want that reverse type of domna. But the right one at what I will pay hasnt surfaced yet