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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7930257, member: 110350"]I'm still missing plenty from the first century (never mind from later centuries), but I was pleased to add these two recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Messalina [I haven't had a chance to photograph this one myself yet -- it's not as over-cleaned as it looks in the dealer's photo]:</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius I, billon [Sear & others]/AR [RPC] Tetradrachm, Year 4 [43/44 AD], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΤΙ ΚΛΑVΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑVΤΟΚΡ around, LΔ [Year 4] under chin / Rev. Messalina [Third wife of Claudius and mother of Britannicus] as Demeter, standing facing, head left, leaning left elbow on short column, holding grain ears in left arm and two standing children [<i>representing Claudia Octavia and Britannicus*</i>] on outstretched right hand; to left, lituus; ΜΕΣΣΑΛΙΝΑ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑΣ. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I 5146 (1992); RPC I Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146</a>; Emmett 74.4 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; K&G 12.36 [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i> (2008)]; Dattari (Savio) 126198 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Köln 82 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band I (Augustus-Trajan) (Cologne, 1974); Sear RCV I 1869 [Year 6; ill of Year 2 w/lituus at p. 369.] 23 mm., 13.02 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371078[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*Probably her two children with Claudius, both born before Year 4 of Claudius’s reign; Claudia Octavia later became the Emperor Nero’s first wife. See note in Sear RCV I at p. 369.</p><p><br /></p><p>Poppea:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 11 (64/65 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate head of Nero, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ AY / Rev. Draped bust of Poppea Sabina [second wife of Nero and former wife of Otho], right, ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ around, LIA [Year 11] in right field. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I 5280 (1992)]; RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5280;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5280;" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5280;</a> Emmett 128.11[Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Dattari (Savio) 197-198 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Milne 223 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay)]; K&G 14.85 (ill. p. 59) [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i> (2008)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 124 at p. 16 [Pool, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London 1892)], Sear RCV I 2002 (Year 11; ill. of Year 10, at p. 394). 26.5 mm., 12.98 g. <i>Purchased from Odysseus Numismatique, Montpellier, France, Sep. 2021.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1371074[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>The small number of other coins in this category that I already had.</p><p><br /></p><p>Livia (maybe):</p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius AR Denarius, 18-35 AD, Lugdunum (Lyons) Mint, “Tribute Penny.” Obv. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG AVGVSTVS, Laureate head right/ Rev. PONTIF MAXIM, Livia [Tiberius’s mother], as Pax, holding long sceptre & olive branch, seated right on throne with ornate legs, her feet resting on low footstool, single line below. RIC I 30, RSC II 16a, Sear RCV I 1763, Giard Lyon, group 4, 150 [Jean Baptist Giard, <i>Le Monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon</i> (Wetteren, 1983)] [<i>see <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=tribute%20penny" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=tribute%20penny" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=tribute penny</a></i>]. 19 mm., 3.82 g. Toned Very Fine. <i>Ex. Tom Cederlind Sale 86 (1989), 305; Ex. JMB collection; Ex. Kirk Davis, Cat # 72, Fall 2018, Lot 80.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371080[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antonia:</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius I, billon [Sear & others]/AR [RPC] Tetradrachm, Year 2 [41/42 AD], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΤΙ ΚΛΑVΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑVΤΟΚΡ around, LΒ [Year 2] under chin / Rev. Draped bust of Antonia [Claudius’s mother] right, ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ upwards to left, ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ downwards to right. ); RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I 5117 (1992); RPC I Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5117" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5117" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5117</a>; Emmett 73.2 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Sear RCV I 1868 (ill.); Sear <i>GIC</i> 492 (ill.) [D. Sear, <i>Greek Imperial Coins and their Values</i> (1982)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 65 at p. 9 [Pool, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; K & G 12.3 [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i> (2008)]; Milne 61 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay); Dattari (Savio) 114 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]. 24 mm., 11.25 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371081[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Titi:</p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Titi Flavia (daughter of Titus), AE Dupondius 80-81 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right with hair bundled high in front and coiled in chignon high in back, IVLIA IMP T AVG F AVGVSTA/ Rev. Vesta seated left, holding palladium in right hand and long transverse scepter in left arm, VESTA below, S C across fields. RIC II-1 398 at. p. 223 (Titus) (2007 ed.), old RIC II 180 (Titus) (1926 ed.), Sear RCV I 2617 (ill.), BMCRE Titus 257. 26 mm., 12.23 g., 6 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371082[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Domitia:</p><p><br /></p><p>Domitian and Domitia, AE 22.7, 93/94 AD, Cilicia, Anazarbus. Obv. Laureate head of Domitian to right, AYTO KAI ΘΕ YI ΔOMITIANOC CE ΓEP around from upper right / Rev. Draped bust of Domitia left, date IB P (= Year 112, = 93/94 AD)* across fields, star behind head, KAICAPEΩN ΔOMETIA CEBACTH around from lower left. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. II 1749; RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749</a> ; SNG Levante 1367 [Levante, E., <i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Switzerland I, Levante-Cilicia</i> (Zurich, 1986)] (see <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=40245);" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=40245);" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=40245);</a> BMC Vol. 21 Lycaonia, Anazarbus 9 p. 32 [Hill, G.F., <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia</i> (London, 1900)]. 22.7 mm., 10.09 g. (<i>Purchased from Zuzim Inc, Brooklyn, NY Jan. 2021; exported from Israel 2016 pursuant to IAA [Israel Antiquities Authority] Export License No. 531619, April 17, 2016.</i>) (<i>Double die-match to RPC II 1749, specimen no. 16; see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749</a>.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371083[/ATTACH]</p><p>*Year 1 of era was 19 BCE, date of founding of Anazarbus after visit of Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your own examples of 1st Century AD Roman Empresses and other royal women. I think that some people focus too exclusively on collecting the Emperors, and don't pay enough attention to all the Empresses and other women portrayed on Roman coins. The reason I like to collect them is probably self-evident, but plenty of men like to as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7930257, member: 110350"]I'm still missing plenty from the first century (never mind from later centuries), but I was pleased to add these two recently. Messalina [I haven't had a chance to photograph this one myself yet -- it's not as over-cleaned as it looks in the dealer's photo]: Claudius I, billon [Sear & others]/AR [RPC] Tetradrachm, Year 4 [43/44 AD], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΤΙ ΚΛΑVΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑVΤΟΚΡ around, LΔ [Year 4] under chin / Rev. Messalina [Third wife of Claudius and mother of Britannicus] as Demeter, standing facing, head left, leaning left elbow on short column, holding grain ears in left arm and two standing children [[I]representing Claudia Octavia and Britannicus*[/I]] on outstretched right hand; to left, lituus; ΜΕΣΣΑΛΙΝΑ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑΣ. RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. I 5146 (1992); RPC I Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146[/URL]; Emmett 74.4 [Emmett, Keith, [I]Alexandrian Coins[/I] (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; K&G 12.36 [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, [I]Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria[/I] (2008)]; Dattari (Savio) 126198 [Savio, A. ed., [I]Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini[/I] (Trieste, 2007)]; Köln 82 [Geissen, A., [I]Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen[/I], [I]Köln[/I], Band I (Augustus-Trajan) (Cologne, 1974); Sear RCV I 1869 [Year 6; ill of Year 2 w/lituus at p. 369.] 23 mm., 13.02 g., 12 h. [ATTACH=full]1371078[/ATTACH] *Probably her two children with Claudius, both born before Year 4 of Claudius’s reign; Claudia Octavia later became the Emperor Nero’s first wife. See note in Sear RCV I at p. 369. Poppea: Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 11 (64/65 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate head of Nero, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ AY / Rev. Draped bust of Poppea Sabina [second wife of Nero and former wife of Otho], right, ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ around, LIA [Year 11] in right field. RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. I 5280 (1992)]; RPC Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5280;[/URL] Emmett 128.11[Emmett, Keith, [I]Alexandrian Coins[/I] (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Dattari (Savio) 197-198 [Savio, A. ed., [I]Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini[/I] (Trieste, 2007)]; Milne 223 [Milne, J., [I]A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum[/I] (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay)]; K&G 14.85 (ill. p. 59) [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, [I]Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria[/I] (2008)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 124 at p. 16 [Pool, Reginald Stuart, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria[/I] (London 1892)], Sear RCV I 2002 (Year 11; ill. of Year 10, at p. 394). 26.5 mm., 12.98 g. [I]Purchased from Odysseus Numismatique, Montpellier, France, Sep. 2021. [ATTACH=full]1371074[/ATTACH] [/I] The small number of other coins in this category that I already had. Livia (maybe): Tiberius AR Denarius, 18-35 AD, Lugdunum (Lyons) Mint, “Tribute Penny.” Obv. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG AVGVSTVS, Laureate head right/ Rev. PONTIF MAXIM, Livia [Tiberius’s mother], as Pax, holding long sceptre & olive branch, seated right on throne with ornate legs, her feet resting on low footstool, single line below. RIC I 30, RSC II 16a, Sear RCV I 1763, Giard Lyon, group 4, 150 [Jean Baptist Giard, [I]Le Monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon[/I] (Wetteren, 1983)] [[I]see [URL='https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=tribute%20penny']https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=tribute penny[/URL][/I]]. 19 mm., 3.82 g. Toned Very Fine. [I]Ex. Tom Cederlind Sale 86 (1989), 305; Ex. JMB collection; Ex. Kirk Davis, Cat # 72, Fall 2018, Lot 80.[/I] [ATTACH=full]1371080[/ATTACH] Antonia: Claudius I, billon [Sear & others]/AR [RPC] Tetradrachm, Year 2 [41/42 AD], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΤΙ ΚΛΑVΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑVΤΟΚΡ around, LΒ [Year 2] under chin / Rev. Draped bust of Antonia [Claudius’s mother] right, ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ upwards to left, ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ downwards to right. ); RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. I 5117 (1992); RPC I Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5117[/URL]; Emmett 73.2 [Emmett, Keith, [I]Alexandrian Coins[/I] (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Sear RCV I 1868 (ill.); Sear [I]GIC[/I] 492 (ill.) [D. Sear, [I]Greek Imperial Coins and their Values[/I] (1982)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 65 at p. 9 [Pool, Reginald Stuart, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria[/I] (London, 1892)]; K & G 12.3 [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, [I]Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria[/I] (2008)]; Milne 61 [Milne, J., [I]A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum[/I] (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay); Dattari (Savio) 114 [Savio, A. ed., [I]Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini[/I] (Trieste, 2007)]. 24 mm., 11.25 g. [ATTACH=full]1371081[/ATTACH] Julia Titi: Julia Titi Flavia (daughter of Titus), AE Dupondius 80-81 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right with hair bundled high in front and coiled in chignon high in back, IVLIA IMP T AVG F AVGVSTA/ Rev. Vesta seated left, holding palladium in right hand and long transverse scepter in left arm, VESTA below, S C across fields. RIC II-1 398 at. p. 223 (Titus) (2007 ed.), old RIC II 180 (Titus) (1926 ed.), Sear RCV I 2617 (ill.), BMCRE Titus 257. 26 mm., 12.23 g., 6 h. [ATTACH=full]1371082[/ATTACH] Domitia: Domitian and Domitia, AE 22.7, 93/94 AD, Cilicia, Anazarbus. Obv. Laureate head of Domitian to right, AYTO KAI ΘΕ YI ΔOMITIANOC CE ΓEP around from upper right / Rev. Draped bust of Domitia left, date IB P (= Year 112, = 93/94 AD)* across fields, star behind head, KAICAPEΩN ΔOMETIA CEBACTH around from lower left. RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. II 1749; RPC Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749[/URL] ; SNG Levante 1367 [Levante, E., [I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Switzerland I, Levante-Cilicia[/I] (Zurich, 1986)] (see [URL]https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=40245);[/URL] BMC Vol. 21 Lycaonia, Anazarbus 9 p. 32 [Hill, G.F., [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia[/I] (London, 1900)]. 22.7 mm., 10.09 g. ([I]Purchased from Zuzim Inc, Brooklyn, NY Jan. 2021; exported from Israel 2016 pursuant to IAA [Israel Antiquities Authority] Export License No. 531619, April 17, 2016.[/I]) ([I]Double die-match to RPC II 1749, specimen no. 16; see [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749[/URL].[/I]) [ATTACH=full]1371083[/ATTACH] *Year 1 of era was 19 BCE, date of founding of Anazarbus after visit of Augustus. Please post your own examples of 1st Century AD Roman Empresses and other royal women. I think that some people focus too exclusively on collecting the Emperors, and don't pay enough attention to all the Empresses and other women portrayed on Roman coins. The reason I like to collect them is probably self-evident, but plenty of men like to as well.[/QUOTE]
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