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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8237531, member: 110350"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], according to Crawford I at p. 411, the moneyer "is presumably a younger brother of M. Crepereius, Tr. Mil. [Military Tribune] 69 [BCE], and connected with the Roman <i>negotiatores</i> [i.e., businessmen] with the same <i>nomen</i> functioning in the Greek East . . . ; the marine types . . . and control-symbols are tolerably appropriate for a man with such a background."</p><p><br /></p><p>I notice that not a single one of these is currently for sale on either VCoins or MA-Shops. Frustrating!</p><p><br /></p><p>Some sea creatures and Neptunes of my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my one ancient coin depicting a hippocamp:</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, Rome Mint, 9th Officina, 10th emission (Göbl), 267-268 AD. Obv. Radiate cuirassed bust right, GALLIENVS AVG / Rev. Hippocamp swimming right, NEP-TVNO CONS AVG; in exergue, N [= Nu, for 9th Officina). RIC V-1 245, RSC IV 668 (ill.), Wolkow 23i9, Bust Type B3, Ribbons Type 3 [Cédric Wolkow, <i>Catalogue des monnaies romaines - Gallien - L'émission dite "Du Bestiaire" - atelier de Rome</i> (BNumis, édition 2019). at p. 87], Göbl MIR [<i>Moneta Imperii Romani</i>] Band 36, No. 743b, Sear RCV III 10292. 19 mm., g. <i>Purchased from Akropolis Ancient Coins, May 2021.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449447[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have three ancient coins portraying Capricorns:</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus, AR Cistophoric tetradrachm [= three denarii]*, 27-26 BCE, Province of Asia [NW Asia Minor], Mysia, Pergamum[?] Mint. Obv. Bare head right, IMP•CAESAR downwards behind, lituus before / Rev. Capricorn** swimming right with head turned back to left, cornucopiae on its back, AVGVSTVS below; all within a laurel wreath tied in bow at bottom. RIC I Augustus 488 (2nd ed. 1984) [see <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.488" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.488" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.488</a>]; RSC I Augustus 16a (3rd ed. 1978) (ill. p. 132); RPC I Online 2208 [see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2208" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2208" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2208</a>]; Sear RCV I 1585; Sutherland Group IIIβ, nos 87–98a [see Sutherland, C.H.V., <i>The Cistophori of Augustus</i> (London, 1970)]; BMCRE I Augustus 698; BMCRR II (East) 287. 26 mm., 11.7 g. <i>Purchased Feb. 2022 from Wessex Coins, UK. </i>[Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449448[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Divus Vespasian AR Denarius, 80 AD Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS / Rev. Foreparts of two capricorns springing in opposite directions, supporting round shield inscribed S C; globe below. RSC II Vespasian 497 (ill.), RIC II-1 Titus 357 (2007), old RIC II Titus 63 (1926), Sear RCV I Titus 2569 (ill.), BMCRE Titus 129. 17 mm., 2.84 g., 6 h.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449450[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Paula (first wife of Elagabalus), AE 21, 219-220 AD, Mysia, Parium [<i>Parion in Greek</i>]. Obv. Draped and diademed bust right, IVLIA P-AVLA AVG / Rev. Capricorn right, holding globe between hooves, cornucopia above, CGIHP [<i>Colonia Gemella Ivlia Hadriana Pariana -- colony founded by Julius Caesar</i>] below. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. VI, 3858 (<i>temporary</i>); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3858;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3858;" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3858;</a> Lindgren & Kovacs 289 [Lindgren, H.C. & Kovacs, F.L., <i>Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant </i>(San Mateo, CA 1985). 21 mm., 5.67 g., 10 h. (<i>Purchased from VAuctions, Pars Coins, Sale 354, Lot 195, Nov. 16, 2020.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449451[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two portraying Neptune, one of them with Cupid riding a dolphin on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L Lucretius Trio, AR Denarius, 76 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Neptune right, XXXIII above and trident behind/ Rev. Cupid (or Infant Genius) on dolphin right; L LVCRETIVS TRIO. Crawford 390/2, Sydenham 784, RSC I Lucretia 3, Sear RCV I 322 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 16 at pp. 98, 100-103 [Michael Harlan, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i>, <i>81 BCE-64 BCE </i>(Vol. I) (2012)], BMCRR Rome 3247. 19 mm., 3.9 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449452[/ATTACH]</p><p>Agrippa (d. 12 BCE), AE As, Memorial issue struck by Caligula, 37-41 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Head of Agrippa left, wearing rostral crown, M AGRIPPA L - F COS III / Rev. Neptune standing left, holding trident in left hand; dolphin resting left on his right forearm; S - C on either side of Neptune. RIC I Caligula [Gaius] 58, Sear RCV I 1812, Cohen Agrippa 3. 31 mm., 11.0 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449453[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I have one modern (19th century) historical medal depicting both Neptune and a hippocamp:</p><p><br /></p><p>Great Britain, Admiral Lord Exmouth and the Bombardment of Algiers by the British Fleet, 1816 (struck 1820). Obv. Uniformed bust of Lord Exmouth, right, ADMIRAL LORD EXMOUTH / Rev. Neptune with trident pointing downwards, subduing and pacifying a hippocamp (sea-horse) beneath him, which he stands upon while it swims left on surface of ocean, with its head turned back towards him; in exergue, ALGIERS AUGUST 18 / 1816. By L. Brenet and F.-P. Gerard. AE 41 mm. Mudie 39, Eimer 1085 & Pl. 117, BHM 921. <i>Purchased February 2022.</i>*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449454[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*Issued in 1820 as part of James Mudie’s series of 40 medals commemorating British Military and Naval Victories, this medal is one of the few in the series that does not directly relate to the Napoleonic Wars. Instead, it commemorates the British attack on Algiers in 1816 to free European slaves from captivity. See BHM at p. 223:</p><p><br /></p><p>“The city of Algiers continued to support piracy and was used as refuge for those engaged in the slave trade. The British fleet under Lord Exmouth successfully bombarded the city upon the refusal of the city to abolish Christian slavery, a new treaty with the Dey abolishing this followed and Exmouth received honors from most of the states of Christendom.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the reverse design, Mudie states as follows at p. 149 of in his book <i>An Historical and Critical Account of A Grand Series of National Medals</i>, published in 1820 simultaneously with the medals (I own a copy of the original edition): “The superiority and grandeur of Britain on the Ocean, are here typified by Neptune controuling [sic] a Sea-Horse, which, from the inscription on the exergue. . ., more immediately relates to the successful attack on the chief piratical state of Barbary.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I must say that the hippocamp looks both subdued and pacified under the power of Britannic Neptune, dominating the seas and all the creatures in it -- or anywhere near it! -- like Rome in its day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8237531, member: 110350"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], according to Crawford I at p. 411, the moneyer "is presumably a younger brother of M. Crepereius, Tr. Mil. [Military Tribune] 69 [BCE], and connected with the Roman [I]negotiatores[/I] [i.e., businessmen] with the same [I]nomen[/I] functioning in the Greek East . . . ; the marine types . . . and control-symbols are tolerably appropriate for a man with such a background." I notice that not a single one of these is currently for sale on either VCoins or MA-Shops. Frustrating! Some sea creatures and Neptunes of my own. Here's my one ancient coin depicting a hippocamp: Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, Rome Mint, 9th Officina, 10th emission (Göbl), 267-268 AD. Obv. Radiate cuirassed bust right, GALLIENVS AVG / Rev. Hippocamp swimming right, NEP-TVNO CONS AVG; in exergue, N [= Nu, for 9th Officina). RIC V-1 245, RSC IV 668 (ill.), Wolkow 23i9, Bust Type B3, Ribbons Type 3 [Cédric Wolkow, [I]Catalogue des monnaies romaines - Gallien - L'émission dite "Du Bestiaire" - atelier de Rome[/I] (BNumis, édition 2019). at p. 87], Göbl MIR [[I]Moneta Imperii Romani[/I]] Band 36, No. 743b, Sear RCV III 10292. 19 mm., g. [I]Purchased from Akropolis Ancient Coins, May 2021.[/I] [ATTACH=full]1449447[/ATTACH] I have three ancient coins portraying Capricorns: Augustus, AR Cistophoric tetradrachm [= three denarii]*, 27-26 BCE, Province of Asia [NW Asia Minor], Mysia, Pergamum[?] Mint. Obv. Bare head right, IMP•CAESAR downwards behind, lituus before / Rev. Capricorn** swimming right with head turned back to left, cornucopiae on its back, AVGVSTVS below; all within a laurel wreath tied in bow at bottom. RIC I Augustus 488 (2nd ed. 1984) [see [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.488[/URL]]; RSC I Augustus 16a (3rd ed. 1978) (ill. p. 132); RPC I Online 2208 [see [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2208[/URL]]; Sear RCV I 1585; Sutherland Group IIIβ, nos 87–98a [see Sutherland, C.H.V., [I]The Cistophori of Augustus[/I] (London, 1970)]; BMCRE I Augustus 698; BMCRR II (East) 287. 26 mm., 11.7 g. [I]Purchased Feb. 2022 from Wessex Coins, UK. [/I][Footnotes omitted.] [ATTACH=full]1449448[/ATTACH] Divus Vespasian AR Denarius, 80 AD Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS / Rev. Foreparts of two capricorns springing in opposite directions, supporting round shield inscribed S C; globe below. RSC II Vespasian 497 (ill.), RIC II-1 Titus 357 (2007), old RIC II Titus 63 (1926), Sear RCV I Titus 2569 (ill.), BMCRE Titus 129. 17 mm., 2.84 g., 6 h. [ATTACH=full]1449450[/ATTACH] Julia Paula (first wife of Elagabalus), AE 21, 219-220 AD, Mysia, Parium [[I]Parion in Greek[/I]]. Obv. Draped and diademed bust right, IVLIA P-AVLA AVG / Rev. Capricorn right, holding globe between hooves, cornucopia above, CGIHP [[I]Colonia Gemella Ivlia Hadriana Pariana -- colony founded by Julius Caesar[/I]] below. RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. VI, 3858 ([I]temporary[/I]); RPC Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3858;[/URL] Lindgren & Kovacs 289 [Lindgren, H.C. & Kovacs, F.L., [I]Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant [/I](San Mateo, CA 1985). 21 mm., 5.67 g., 10 h. ([I]Purchased from VAuctions, Pars Coins, Sale 354, Lot 195, Nov. 16, 2020.[/I]) [ATTACH=full]1449451[/ATTACH] I have two portraying Neptune, one of them with Cupid riding a dolphin on the reverse: Roman Republic, L Lucretius Trio, AR Denarius, 76 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Neptune right, XXXIII above and trident behind/ Rev. Cupid (or Infant Genius) on dolphin right; L LVCRETIVS TRIO. Crawford 390/2, Sydenham 784, RSC I Lucretia 3, Sear RCV I 322 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 16 at pp. 98, 100-103 [Michael Harlan, [I]Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins[/I], [I]81 BCE-64 BCE [/I](Vol. I) (2012)], BMCRR Rome 3247. 19 mm., 3.9 g. [ATTACH=full]1449452[/ATTACH] Agrippa (d. 12 BCE), AE As, Memorial issue struck by Caligula, 37-41 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Head of Agrippa left, wearing rostral crown, M AGRIPPA L - F COS III / Rev. Neptune standing left, holding trident in left hand; dolphin resting left on his right forearm; S - C on either side of Neptune. RIC I Caligula [Gaius] 58, Sear RCV I 1812, Cohen Agrippa 3. 31 mm., 11.0 g. [ATTACH=full]1449453[/ATTACH] Finally, I have one modern (19th century) historical medal depicting both Neptune and a hippocamp: Great Britain, Admiral Lord Exmouth and the Bombardment of Algiers by the British Fleet, 1816 (struck 1820). Obv. Uniformed bust of Lord Exmouth, right, ADMIRAL LORD EXMOUTH / Rev. Neptune with trident pointing downwards, subduing and pacifying a hippocamp (sea-horse) beneath him, which he stands upon while it swims left on surface of ocean, with its head turned back towards him; in exergue, ALGIERS AUGUST 18 / 1816. By L. Brenet and F.-P. Gerard. AE 41 mm. Mudie 39, Eimer 1085 & Pl. 117, BHM 921. [I]Purchased February 2022.[/I]* [ATTACH=full]1449454[/ATTACH] *Issued in 1820 as part of James Mudie’s series of 40 medals commemorating British Military and Naval Victories, this medal is one of the few in the series that does not directly relate to the Napoleonic Wars. Instead, it commemorates the British attack on Algiers in 1816 to free European slaves from captivity. See BHM at p. 223: “The city of Algiers continued to support piracy and was used as refuge for those engaged in the slave trade. The British fleet under Lord Exmouth successfully bombarded the city upon the refusal of the city to abolish Christian slavery, a new treaty with the Dey abolishing this followed and Exmouth received honors from most of the states of Christendom.” Concerning the reverse design, Mudie states as follows at p. 149 of in his book [I]An Historical and Critical Account of A Grand Series of National Medals[/I], published in 1820 simultaneously with the medals (I own a copy of the original edition): “The superiority and grandeur of Britain on the Ocean, are here typified by Neptune controuling [sic] a Sea-Horse, which, from the inscription on the exergue. . ., more immediately relates to the successful attack on the chief piratical state of Barbary.” I must say that the hippocamp looks both subdued and pacified under the power of Britannic Neptune, dominating the seas and all the creatures in it -- or anywhere near it! -- like Rome in its day.[/QUOTE]
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