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Zoomorphic Bird plate fibula13 viewsZoomorphic fibula
Bird type (eagle?)
Pin missing
2nd Century AD
32 mm X 26 mm
10.08g
Böhme 43aJay GT4Mar 04, 2014
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Alesia type? Fibula11 viewsAlesia type brooch
Engraved lines and dots
Continental, Late 1st century BC
Pin missing
Hattatt 830a (similar)
66 mm X 35 mm
16.14gJay GT4Mar 04, 2014
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Vespasian Temple of Vesta29 viewsIMP CAES VESP AVG P M T P COS IIII CENS
Laureate head of Vespasian right
VESTA SC
Doomed temple of Vesta in the Forum, showing four columns and containing statue of the goddess on pedestal
Rome 73 AD
9.48g
Sear 2365, RIC 601, BMCRE 664
Rare
Ex-Calgary Coin
This celebrated temple had been rebuilt by Nero following the great fire of 64 AD. The Neronian structure survived until another conflagration late in the reign of Commodus and was again restored early in the 3rd century by Julia Domna. It was again rebuilt in more modern times where it still stands in the Roman Forum to this day.
Die notes from Curtis Clay:
"Same dies, and better condition, than the Paris spec., pl. LVII, 663.
The BM spec., pl. 26.9, also illustrated in RIC, pl. 40, 601, is also from the same rev. die, but a different obv. die.
The BM and Paris specimens of the same As for Titus COS II CENS are also from that same rev. die: BM pl. 27.7 = RIC pl. 42, 640; Paris pl. LIX, 689."
Jay GT4Feb 22, 2014
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Galba billon Tetradrachm17 viewsΛ OYKΛIBΣ OYΛ Π ΓAΛBA KAIΣ ΣEB AVT
laureate bust of Galba, right, LB (year 2) before
PΩMH
Helmeted, draped bust of Roma right, holding spear & sheild
Alexandria, September 68 AD-January 69 AD
13.44g
Scarce
RPC 5330; Emmett 174
Ex-ANE
In hand it has a wonderful dark consistent toning
Jay GT4Feb 22, 2014
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Vespasian Dupondius25 viewsIMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG
Laureate head of Vespasian right
PON MAX TR POT P P COS V CENS
winged caduceus between two cornucopiae
10.79g
74 AD
Probably minted in Rome for the Syrian monetary circulation.
RIC I 798c; RIC II 759; RPC 1983
Jay GT4Feb 20, 2014
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Kraftig Profilierte Fibula18 viewsKraftig Profilierte Fibula
Early 1st century to early 2nd Century AD.
Pin missing
Distribution:Mostly found in Pannonia, Dacia, Noricum, and Raetia.Jay GT4Feb 16, 2014
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Hod Hill Fibula13 viewsHod Hill Type Fibula
Distribution: Gaul, Britain; Rhine and Danube Limes. They are common on Roman military sites.
Typology: Riha 5.14; Hull 60; Ettlinger 31
c. 50-100 ADJay GT4Feb 16, 2014
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Hadrian Alexandrian Drachm23 viewsAVT KAI TRAI A∆PIA CEB
laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, from behind
Nilus seated left on rocks, reed in right, cornucopia in left, crocodile right climbing up rocks, IS / L (year 16) above left
Alexandria
25.03g, 34mm
Emmett 1014
Ex-Zurgieh
The Greek numeral sixteen (Iς) above Nilus refers to what was considered the ideal height of the annual Nile flood, sixteen cubits. Less could mean drought or famine. Even in modern times grand celebrations were held when the flood reached 16 cubits. In years when the flood failed to reach 16 cubits, the celebrations were canceled, and prayers and fasting were held instead. The peak flood occurred at the end of August, which explains why the Egyptian year began on 29 August.Jay GT4Feb 14, 2014
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Horse Fibula38 viewsZoomorphic plate Horse fibula
2nd Century AD
40mm X 22mm
9.05g
Pin intact
Ex-Ancient Treasures
Jay GT4Feb 12, 2014
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Benito Mussolini 20 Lira Medal23 viewsMVSSOLINI MCMXXVIII
Helmeted head of Mussolini left
ITALIA MEGLIO VIVERE VN GIORNO DA LEONE CHE CENTO ANNI DA PECORA
Lion, Fasces L20R left field, MCMXVIII (Top of Rods) MCMXXVIII AVI (Bottom of Rods)
Fantasy piece
16.24gJay GT4Feb 11, 2014
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Gordian III Sestertius26 viewsIMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
IOVI STATORI / S C.
Jupiter standing facing, head right, holding sceptre and thunderbolt.
Rome 241-243 AD
17.26g
RIC 299a.
Ex-ZurgiehJay GT4Feb 11, 2014
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Claudius Alexandrian Tetradrachm26 viewsTI KΛAΥΔI KAIΣ ΣEBA ΓEΡMANI AΥTOKΡ
laureate head of Claudius right, in field below chin, date L Γ (Regnal year 3)
MEΣΣAΛINA KAIΣ CEBAC
Messalina as Ceres standing facing, head left, two small figures in right, two stalks of grain in left. In left field a lituus.
Egypt, Alexandria 42/3 AD
12.10g
RPC 5132; Köln 76; Dattari 124; Kampmann & Ganschow 12.23
Ex-Londinium CoinsJay GT4Jan 25, 2014
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Caracalla79 viewsANTONINVS PIVS AVG
Laureate head of Caracalla right
LAETITIA TEMPORVM
The spina of the Circus Maximus decorated as a ship facing l., with the turning posts at its prow and stern, a sail mounted on the central obelisk, and the spina's other monuments visible in between; above the ship, four quadrigas racing l.; below, seven animals: an ostrich at l. and bear at r.; between them a lion and a lioness chasing a wild ass and a panther attacking a bison.
Rome 206 AD
3.34g
Ex-Londinium coins, Ex Professor K.D. White with original envelope.
Sear 6813, RIC 157, BMCRE 257, CSS 793
Very rare! Only 2 examples in the Reka Devnia hoard
Better in hand
Notes by Curtis Clay:
This famous type commemorates the chariot races and animal hunt that took place on the seventh and final day of Severus' Saecular Games in 204 AD, as described in the inscriptional acts of those games which were found in Rome in the 1870s and 1930s. According to the acts, after three days of sacrifices and three days of honorary stage shows, Severus and Caracalla held circus games on the seventh day, consisting of chariot races and then a hunt of 700 beasts, 100 each of "lions, lionesses, panthers, bears, bisons, wild asses, ostriches". Dio Cassius describes the same hunt, adding the detail that the cage from which the animals were discharged was formed like a boat: "The entire receptacle in the theater had been fashioned in the shape of a boat and was capable of receiving or discharging four hundred beasts at once; and then, as it suddenly fell apart, there came rushing forth bears, lionesses, panthers, lions, ostriches, wild asses, bisons, so that 700 beasts in all, both wild and domesticated, at one and the same time were seen running about and were slaughtered. For to correspond with the duration of the festival, which lasted seven days, the number of the animals was also seven times one hundred." In Dio's text this passage follows directly on his account of Severus' Decennalian Games in 202 AD, causing scholars to accuse Dio of misdating the hunt or to postulate that similar hunts of 700 animals were held both in 202 and in 204. But the true explanation, in my opinion, is that Dio's Byzantine epitimator Xiphilinus, on whom we are dependent for this section of Dio's text, has simply jumped without warning or transition from Dio's description of the Decennalian Games of 202 to his description of the circus spectacle concluding the Saecular Games of 204. This hypothesis easily explains why Dio's text as we have it makes no mention of the Saecular Games themselves or of any event of 203: Xiphilinus omitted this whole section of Dio's history! The seven kinds of animals named by both Dio and the inscriptional acts are also depicted in the coin type: on good specimens, especially the aureus BM pl. 34.4, the ostrich and the bear are clear, the lion has a mane, the ass has long ears, the bison has horns and a hump. Two large felines remain, of which we may suppose that the one accompanying the lion is the lioness and the one attacking the bison is the panther. The animals are named somewhat differently in Cohen, BMC, and other numismatic works: though numismatists have long cited Dio's text to explain the coin type, no one previously seems to have posed the question whether the seven animals in the lower part of the type might not be the same seven that Dio and now the inscriptional acts too name! These circus games with the ship and 700 animals were held in 204 AD, but the coin type commemorating them did not appear until two years later: on aurei of Septimius the type is die linked to a dated type of 206 AD, and for Caracalla the type passes from a draped and cuirassed obverse type on the aureus to the "head only" type on his denarii, a transition that took place in 206 AD according to his dated coins. Jay GT4Jan 25, 2014
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Lucania, Thourioi Stater32 viewsHead of Athena right wearing Attic helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident
ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ
Bull butting right, solid exurgal line below HR monogram above
c. 420-400 BC
6.74g
SNG ANS-1041-2 var
Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7072 (Lewis Egnew Collection), ex-HJBJay GT4Dec 30, 2013
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Mark Antony Legionary Denarius LEG IV23 viewsANT AVG III VIR R P C
galley right, mast with banners at prow
LEG IV
Legionary eagle between two standards
Patrae mint 32-31BC
3.34g
ex-Arcade coin
The coin that started it. This was my first Mark Antony coin!
In its first years, the whereabouts of IV Scythica are uncertain, although it is probable that it took part in Antony's campaign against the Parthians. The name suggests that it fought against the Scythians. After the battle of Actium and Antony's suicide, Octavian transferred IV Scythica to the Danube province of Moesia. The legion is reported to have taken part in civilian tasks, such as the building and keeping of roads. In his youth, future emperor Vespasian served in this legion.Jay GT4Dec 15, 2013
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Mark Antony Legionary Denarius LEG II15 viewsANT AVG III VIR R P C
Galley right, mast with banners at prow
LEG II
legionary eagle between two standards
Patrae mint 32-31BC
3.14g
Great "bankers" mark on reverse, a very nice "C"
Origianlly founded by Pompey the Great in 84 BC. Legio II was given the title of "Augusta" in about 25 BC by Augustus. The II Augusta legion took part in Germanicus' campaigns in Germany and was commanded by Germanicus' friend Publius Vitellius who held the rank of legate. Publius Vitellius later prosecuted Piso for the murder of Germanicus.Jay GT4Dec 15, 2013
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137 BC Sextus Pompeius 85 viewsHelmeted head of Roma right, X below chin, jug behind
FOSTLVS SEX POM
ROMA in Ex.
She-wolf standing rightsuckling the twins Romulus and Remus, fig tree in background with three birds, the shepherd Faustulus standing right behind
Rome 137 BC
Sear 112
CRR 461
ex-ANE
This moneyer was the husband of Lucilia (sister of the poet C. Lucilius) and father to Cn. Pompeius Sex. f Strabo, and grandfather of Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great). He may also have been praetor in 119 BC.Titus Pullo
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Vespasian denarius Vesta30 viewsIMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII
laureate head right
VESTA
Vesta standing left holding simpulum and sceptre
Rome 72 AD
Sear 2316, RIC 50, RSC 574
3.42gJay GT4
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Pompeii Ampitheater34 viewsGladiators view of the seating inside the ampitheater. Much of the seating is still covered in dirt, hence the grass. It is in a remarkable state of preservation.Titus Pullo
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Pompeii Mosaics55 viewsFloor mosaics in the house of a Patrician family. Extensively restored they actually allow you to walk on it!Titus Pullo
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