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161-175 AD  Silver denarius of Faustina the Younger.
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Beautiful detail and tone.
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That's a nice bunch of coins there t0rress. A Little bit of everything in the mix roman imperial, republican and greek and what else is there? Nice owl.
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We have had a couple of beautiful Athenas in this thread. I thought that I would add a slightly different one. Transitional style tetradrachms include all of the wide spectrum of variants with the eye in profile issued after the classic "old style" almond eye tetradrachms but before the broad thinner flan "new style" tetradrachms. Recent research has classified variations of the transitional style - Pi Type, Quadridigité Style, Heterogeneous Style and sub-groups of the styles, and proposed chronologies for the different styles and groups. This coin is the earliest transitional type, the first Pi style type, essentially identical to the "old style" with the exception of the eye in profile. The "Pi" designation is based on the P shape of the floral spiral and palmette ornamentation on the helmet bowl. The coin can be classified as Pi style, group 1. The floral ornament on examples this early do not yet resemble Pi. Current thinking dates this to c. B.C. 393 - 370.  Martin |
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jessvc1,yes they are Roman imperial,repiblic and Greek
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06/03/2012 06:15 am
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Wow t0rress, that's quite the harem of beautiful ladies ya got there!! ... and your photos are displayed on almost every surface known to mankind!! (nice showing)  => nice owl, maridvnvm |
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I hope you will forgive me adding more coins to the thread. L Papius Denarius Serratus On this issue of coins a pair of dies was created with a pair of symbols on the obverse and rear with these dies always being used with one another i.e. not mixing the dies and hence mixing the symbols. There has been some speculation as to the meaning of the symbols with Sydenham proposing that the symbols represent trade guilds while Crawford suggested that there is no such association and that they are a "random selection of pairs of everyday objects". Roman Republican Coinage, by Michael Crawford, 1974. lists 211 symbol pair varieties. One pair has the symbol CCXLVI on each side perhaps implying that there are a total of 246 symbols pairs. Obv:-- Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin tied under chin. Behind head, Dolphin wrapped around anchor. Rev:-- Gryphon running right; in ex., L. PAPI.; in field, Hippocamp Minted in Rome from . B.C. 79. Reference(s) -- RSC Papia 1. RRC 384/1. RCTV 311. This coin comes from a previously unknown set of symbols and thus a previously unknown pair of dies. This was confirmed by Richard Schaeffer who is running the Republican Die Project, which is collating and documenting all the known Roman Republican dies.  Martin |
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Wonderful coins marividvm.
Two of my favorite images are the Griffin and Hippocamp....this one has both!
They are an inspiration, keep them coming.
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Some more Republican female deities... Bust of Diana right, draped, with bow and quiver over shoulder; above bucranium  Head of Diana Planciana right, wearing petasus  Helmeted head of Roma right;  Diademed head of Venus right, SC behind  Diademed and draped bust of Concordia right  Draped and veiled bust of Vesta left; Kylix behind  Martin |
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Great looking coins mairdvnvm!
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You have a wonderful group of interesting coins, t0rress and maridvnvm! Thanks for posting them!
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