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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3099990, member: 87404&quot;]May had been a pretty busy month for me in terms of coins purchased (compared to other months since I started ancient collecting one year ago). Most are kind of related or part of a group that I&#039;ll post later, so I thought I&#039;d write a little post of some ad hoc coins that I&#039;ve taken adoption of this past month.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start with this Maximianus with Africa reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]784424[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Maximianus</b>, First reign, 286-305 AD</p><p>AE Follis, Carthage mint, 2nd officina. Struck 297-298 AD</p><p><b>Obverse</b>: IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, Laureate head right. </p><p><b>Reverse</b>: FELIX AD-V-ENT AVGG NN, Africa standing facing, head left, wearing elephant skin headdress and holding signum and tusk; at feet to left, lion with captured bull; H in left field; PKS in exergue. </p><p><b>References</b>: RIC VI 23b, RCV 3630, Van Meter 035</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, inspired by a talk a couple months ago about Elagabalus at my local Ancient Coin Collecting Club, and of course TIF&#039;s pony parade post (and I had mentioned in a recent post that this coin was in transit), I adopted this horned Elagabalus denarius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]784425[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Elagabalus</b>, 218-222 AD</p><p>AR Denarius, Rome Mint, Struck 220-222 AD</p><p><b>Obverse</b>: IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG (no break), Horned, laureate, draped and bearded bust right. </p><p><b>Reverse</b>: INVICTVS SACERDOS AVG, Elagabalus, in Syrian priestly robes, standing half left, sacrificing holding patera in right hand over lighted altar, a club or cypress in his left hand. A recumbent bull sits behind the altar, star in left field.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC IV 88b, RSC 61, BMCRE 212</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, here is a well-worn Drusus Jr (I had no clue who he was prior to seeing this coin) bronze with brown-green patina (not powdery, though... should I be worried?):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]784426[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Drusus Caesar</b>, son of Tiberius, </p><p>AE As, Rome Mint, Struck 22-23 AD.</p><p><b>Obverse</b>: DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare head left.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: PONTIF TRIBVN POTEST ITER around large SC.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC I 45 (Tiberius), BMCRE 99, Cohen 2, RCV 1794</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>What coins have you gotten recently that haven&#039;t appeared on CT yet? </i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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