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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7899201, member: 75937&quot;]Wow, [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] and [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] have quite the subcollection of Minerva and Fortuna types!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always liked Cybele; it&#039;s a shame she doesn&#039;t appear as frequently on Roman imperial issues as the other goddesses, but that&#039;s to be expected because she&#039;s an eastern goddess.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might think I&#039;ve posted this one earlier in this thread, but I haven&#039;t. It&#039;s just that these coins were struck at a common mint and then distributed to the various cities around the Black Sea region, so there is a certain sameness to them. The earlier post was from Anchialus; this one is from Marcianopolis.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364127[/ATTACH]</p><p>Septimius Severus, AD 193-211</p><p>Roman provincial AE 27.38 mm, 12.46 g, 1:00</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis. Magistrate Julius Faustinianus, AD 207-210</p><p>Obv: AV Λ CЄΠΤΙ CЄVHPOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind</p><p>Rev: VI ΦAVCTINIANOV MAΡKIANOΠOΛITΩN, Cybele enthroned left, holding patera, resting left arm on drum, a lion reclines at each side of throne</p><p>Refs: AMNG Ia 565; Varbanov 780; Hristov &amp; Jekov Marcianopolis 6.14.31.15; Moushmov 382.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cybele DOES appear on coins of Julia Domna in the imperial series. These two represent different issues if Hill is to be believed. His dating and even relative chronology has to be taken with a grain of salt, however.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-mater-devm-no-scepter-denarius-jpg.806174/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-211.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 2.84 gm, 17.5 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 198, issue 1.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: MATER DEVM, Cybele enthroned left, flanked by two lions, holding branch and resting elbow on drum; no scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 565; BMCRE 54-55; RCV --; RSC 126a; Hill 340; CRE --.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hill reports the variety with the scepter was issued in AD 200 and assigns it its own catalog number. RIC, BMCRE and RSC assign it separate numbers as well. Unlike the above example, this coin is listed in Cohen, Sear and in Temeryazev &amp; Makarenko:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-mater-deum-denarius-jpg.806179/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-211.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.41 gm, 18.5 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 200, issue 9.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right</p><p>Rev: MATER DEVM, Cybele enthroned left, flanked by two lions, holding a branch and scepter, resting elbow on drum.</p><p>Refs: RIC 564; BMCRE 51-53; RCV 6593; Cohen/RSC 123; Hill 344A; CRE 306.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cybele (uncharacteristically) appears standing on this issue.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-matri-deum-denarius-jpg.556081/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Julia Domna, issued under Caracalla</p><p>Roman AR Denarius</p><p>Rome mint, AD 212</p><p>3.05 gm; 19.15 mm</p><p>Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, r. </p><p>Rev: MATRI DEVM, Cybele standing l., holding drum and scepter, leaning on column, lion at feet.</p><p>RIC 382; Sear 7104; BMCRE 14; Hill1329[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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