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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7929931, member: 110350&quot;]Great coin and write-up!</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I had any coins portraying Ceres, all I had depicting her or the myth was this illustration by Margaret Evans Price from my childhood copy of <i>A Child&#039;s Book of Myths</i> (published in 1924): </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/illustration-of-ceres-from-a-childs-book-of-myths-jpg.1213900/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I now have a couple of coins that depict Ceres:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. [Gaius] Marius C.f. Capito, AR Serrate Denarius 81 BCE [Harlan: 81/80 BCE], Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Ceres right, wearing earring, head bound with corn wreath, hair falling down neck; CAPIT• upwards behind, with legend followed by control number CI; control symbol (knife [Crawford, Table XXXIII at p. 395 ] or distaff [BMCRR p. 355]) to right of chin* / Rev. Husbandman/plowman left holding goad in right hand and plow in left, with yoke of two oxen plowing left with heads turned to face forward; horizontal test cut and control-number CI above; C•MARI•C•F / S•C [<i>Senatus consulto</i>] on two lines in exergue. Crawford 378/1c; RSC I Maria 9; Sear RCV I 300 (ill.); Sydenham 744b; BMCRR Vol. I 2855-2890 [<i>Control-number CI is no. 2873</i>]; Harlan, Michael, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i>, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012) [“RRM I”], Ch. 2 at pp. 8-13. 19 mm., 3.97 g., 10 hr. <i>Purchased Feb. 21, 2021 from Nomos AG, Obolos Auction 18, Lot 468.</i>** [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371014[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Memmius C.f., AR Denarius, 56 BCE [Crawford], 57 BCE [Harlan], Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head of Quirinus right [deified aspect of Romulus and/or Italian deity worshipped on Quirinal Hill; <i>see footnote</i>], hair long, beard in formal ringlets, C•MEMMI•C•F downwards to right, QVIRINVS downwards to left; <i>banker’s mark or test mark to left of Quirinus’s eye, in shape of bird? inside flower or star</i>/ Rev. Ceres seated right, holding torch in left hand and corn ear in right hand; at her feet, snake rearing with head right; MEMMIVS •AED• CERIALIA•PREIMVS•FECIT [<i>translated as “Memmius as aedile first held the games of Ceres” (Harlan RRM II pp. 99-100)</i>] downwards from upper left; <i>old graffiti resembling an “X” to right of Ceres</i>.&nbsp; Crawford 427/2, RSC I Memmia 9 (ill.), Sear RCV I 388 (ill.), BMCRR 3940; Sydenham 921; Harlan RRM II, Ch. 12 at pp. 95-103; RBW Collection 1532; Jones, J.M., <i>A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins</i> (1990) [entry for “Quirinus” at p. 264]. 19.5 mm., 3.71 g.* [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371015[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diva Faustina I [Senior] (wife of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, prob. 150-160 AD [see Dinsdale, <i>infra</i> at p. 216 -- including this type among coins issued upon and after 10th anniversary of Faustina’s deification]. Obv: Draped bust right, DIVA FAVSTINA / Rev: Ceres, veiled, standing left, holding torch in left hand and holding right hand up in greeting,&nbsp; CONSECRATIO. RIC III 382b <i>corr.*</i>, RSC II 165a, Sear RCV II 4593, Dinsdale 020610 [Dinsdale, Paul H, <i>Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar AD 138-161: Antonine Coinage</i> (2018) at p. 249; photo at p. 254]. 17 mm., 3.3 g. [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371022[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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