Next Challenge - Women Of Rome Coinage

Thanks David. I have Faustina Major, Lucilla and Otacilia Severa so far. This just seemed like a fun and manageable set, whereas trying to get every Roman ruler would be a bit epic in scale. I don't have a very large collection of Roman coins outside of the London mint, and even that is small, so I figure this would be a fun way to learn some history and collect some nice coins at the same time.

If you have Didia Clara and Manila Scantilla in your sights, you might as well just go for all of them! Some of the wives can put all but the rarest of emperors to shame in terms of price.

Here is an auction that I was watching a while ago, just for kicks:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Rom-AR...TCHING_ENDED

Some of the later empresses are also doable; Aelia Flacilla in particular can be had in very nice condition in the $25-50 range. Eudoxia does also show up from time to time; I think I found two of her in uncleaned lots; albeit horrid condition with very little detail. Still ought to be cheaper than half the women on your list.

How much do you have at your disposal? I recall Ben found an insanely rare late empress (Zenonis) and is looking to sell.

That is an excellent list and very doable for collectors of modest means (like me). Are you open to a proposal to make a community project out of this?

1. As a community project EFLC would lead us in highlighting the various women with a separate thread for each. These could be done in any order you choose.

2. To keep order on the arrangement and make it easy to add material to the existing threads, we could create an index page with the names arranged as you have given them, each followed by a link to the thread for that person. This page would be a separate thread that Ron could put in with the sticky topics at the head of the ancients list.

3. After EFLargeCents has introduced a figure, the rest of us can add examples from our own collections, hopefully without too much duplication of types, unless the portrait of the empress is quite different from anything already posted.

This could be kept as a long term project.


What do you think?

A do-able set, not my area of focus but I managed to get 10 on the list. Julia Domna and Salonina are probably the most common and easiest to find.

Nice set to go for

Really doable and something I'm
very interested in.

I love the idea of irbguy...It would be good fun and really educational at the same time...I hope it happens.

I'm looking forward to your future posta.

Saludos Paul

If you were to include provincial coins I think Livia and some of the other Julio-Claudian and Flavian women would be achievable. Actually thinking about it Livia was depicted on the reverse of some of Tiberius's coinage.

Here's a picture of a recent bargain pickup of mine. A sestertius minted by Domitian in honor of his niece Julia Titi.

Actually, in my imagination you would kinda be the ringleader, EFLargeCents. You would start a thread by posting a coin of one of the women on the list, the way you usually do. Once you do that, the thread is set for that particular woman, so we copy and paste a link to the thread in the spot by her name. This illustrates the idea with reference to an old thread on Sabina:


Sabina - Wife of Hadrian ..........................http://goccf.com/t/131669&SearchTerms=sabina
Faustina I - Wife of Antoninus Pius
Faustina II - Wife of Marcus Aurelius
Lucilla - Wife of Lucius Verus
Crispina - Wife of Commodus
.
. etc, etc
.
Fausta - Wife of Constantinus I
Aelia Flaccilla - Wife of Theodosius I

In each thread the rest of us will add images and comment on that same person from our collections.


EFLC, you can pick any figure you choose in any order to start a thread and we will add its link to the index thread in the sticky section with a whole new entry. Ron will need to help us by deleting the old version of the index when it has been updated with a new entry - which is nothing more than deleting an older post within a thread. The index thread should ONLY contain the index and perhaps one explanatory post. Never more than two posts in the sticky thread.

Eventually, we will have a link for each name on the list and can quickly access any one of those threads without any hassle.


Only one of us need handle updating the index list, and Ron can regulate that. With the index our conversation can stand for a long time. Since the threads don't disappear, interested viewers can read or add new images and info any time.