Yeah, this is one of my favorite all time Emperors. The guy was a decent, peaceful, and amiable character in a world where just about every other world leader had tasted blood in battle, killed half his family, and ran their courts for their own benefits. What's not to like about Antoninus Pius? He was a man far ahead of his time. Here is the recent Antoninus Pius Salus Augustus denarius I picked up from @vespasian70 I just love the portrait. My other Antoninus looks a tiny bit more caricature-like. This one you can honestly hold up to a bust of him and immediately recognize you are seeing the same person in both the coin and the bust. So what do you all think?
That is a lovely coin. And I think AP gets a lot of attention for his leadership. On your coin, is that your image or that of the seller? It's a good image, but I would turn the reverse so the light can illuminate the facial features of Salus. I think they are there from what I can see. All in all, a nice addition.
The facial features are there...the coin is just a little darker/toned in that area. Those are my pics. The seller pic is below:
Was this your vcoins snag? Very nice addition. Check out Dougs page on photography for some good tips.
Nice => that's a sweet A-Pius (congrats) ..... I don't have a denarius of Mr Pius (I have a whole lotta drachms and sestertii, but no silver babies ... I may have to rectify that flaw in 2016)
No, I got this one from @vespasian70 He has sells ancients and has quite a few really nice ancients on his website. This was one of them.
You need to get the Divo Antoninus denarius, commemorating his deification as a God. The eagle on the reverse is sweet. I'm going to get one of those eventually. Honestly, out of my planned set of Flavian and Good Emperors, Antoninus is the only Emperor I could see myself getting more than 2 or 3. I just like the man. I wouldn't mind having 8 or 10 denarii of his.
As nice a coin as that is, I cannot take credit for selling it! You have me confused with someone else.
I consider the to most interesting parts of the Pius years the beginning and the end. In the beginning he was wrangling with the Senate over their hesitance to deify Hadrian and was slow to accept the title Augustus. Coins of this period do not have AVG on either side. The posthumous coins are interesting with the obverse legend given in nominative case and reverse in dative ("to Pius").
