Let's march through time with Roman Imperials!

(AncientJoe)
Being new here, I don't really know anybody, so I do a lot of looking around...and I've looked at only a part of your Colosseo Collection (so far) and am absolutely floored. You have some of the most beautiful ancient coins I've ever seen. I love the design of the site, I love the photography, I really enjoy the historical descriptions, and the coins themselves almost literally take my breath away. Absolutely stunning collection - thank you for sharing it!

 

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I hope you guys allow me to catch up a bit - (I missed all of Nero, Galba, Otho and Vitellius because we were at the beach...)

My three favourite coin of Vespasianvs:

 

And Titus:

 

Not to miss Nerva:

 

Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.09 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. Laureate head right / VEHICVLATIONE ITALIAE REMISSA, SC in exergue, two mules grazing, one left and one right, cart with pole and harness behind. RIC II 93; BMCRE 119; Cohen 143; Banti 44.
chocolate patina

 

Are we on Nerva now?

 

sorry skipped Vespasian jr. @Eduard made me do it!

 

Catch up post... Out of seq.

Nero Victory As


Nero & Poppaea, Alexandria


Titus Spes As


Domitian Virtus As


(non-imperial) 2x Domitians from Antioch

 

Since I missed a few emperors.

Otho

Otho (69 A.D.)
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
O: AYTOK MAPK OΘΩNOΣ KAIΣ ΣEB, laureate head right, LA (year 1) lower right.
R: EΛEY-ΘEPIA, Eleutheria (Liberty) standing left, wreath in extended right hand, scepter in left hand, leaning with left elbow on column, simpulum (ladle used for tasting and pouring sacrificial libations) left in lower left field.
12.58g
24.4mm
Milne 359; RPC I 5354 (5 spec.); Dattari 327; BMC Alexandria p. 25, 208; Curtis 238; Kampmann 18.6; Emmett 184


This variety with a simpulum on the reverse is much rarer than the same type without this control symbol. RPC reports only 5 specimens with the simpulum and 17 specimens without it. This variety is missing from the important collections in Cologne, Paris, and Milan, and we know of only one example offered at auction in the past two decades (CNG 76, 12 Sep 2007, lot 3152, VF, $430 plus fees).



vitellius

Vitellius (69 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP TR P, Laureate head right.
R: S P Q R / OB / C S in three lines within wreath.
Rome Mint, 69 A.D.
3g
18.5mm
RIC I 83; RSC 86



Vespasian (69 - 79 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII, laureate head right.
R: VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory advancing right, holding palm and crowning standard with wreath.
Rome Mint (72-73 A.D.)
3.45g
19mm
RIC 362 (C2), BMCRE 74, RSC 618


Titus (79 - 81 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M•, laureate head right.
R: TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, facing empty throne of a deity (pulvinar) with a triangular back, back ornamented with uncertain objects and a cross at the peak, seat draped with a fringed cover.
Rome Mint, 80 A.D.
3.34g
17.8mm
RIC II, part 1, 124; RSC II 313a; BMCRE II 61; BnF III 50; SRCV I 2515


Domitian (81 - 96 A.D.)
SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch
AR Tetradrachm
O: AVT KAISAR DOMITIANOS SEB GERM, laureate head right; aegis at point of bust.
R: ETOUS NEOV IEROV H, eagle standing facing right on thunderbolt; palm in right field. RY 8 (88/9 AD)
14.77g
26mm
Prieur 145; RPC II 1978; Wruck 108

 

Nerva:

 

Nerva (96 -98 A.D.)
AR Didrachm
Cappadocia, Caesarea
O AVTOKPAT NEPOYAC KAICAP CEBACTOC YΠAT Γ, laurate head right.
R: CEBACTOY TYXH, Tyche standing left holding rudder in right hand and cornucopiae in left.
Cappadocia, Caesarea 97 A.D.
20mm
6.7g
Sydenham 150

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Vespasian, Titus and Domitian:

 

Nerva...

 

Who nose who's next. Oh yeah! It's Nerva!!

 

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I think I'll spare you my catching up with Nero, Galba, Otho and Vitellius - it would throw LordM's nice sequential thread to the wind....