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Roman Provincial: Markianopolis Commodus
Commodus AE25 of Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior.
AVT KAI Λ AVΡH KOMOΔOC, bare-headed draped bust right
/ MAΡKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, statuary group of the Three Graces.
AMNG 540, SNG Cop 205
25mm.,6.21g.,paul1888

ROME. Durmius Successus
PB Tessera (19mm, 2.74 g)
Three aspects of Hekate
DVR/ SVC
Rostowzew 1210, pl. XI 4 (cast from same mold as illustrated specimen); Turcan 174

Ex Mark Staal Three Graces Collection; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 232, Lot 515 (part of); purchased from Divus Numismatic, May 2007

Rostowzew places this with the "Tesserae nominibus virorum et mulierum signatae."
Ardatirion

ROME. L. Volusi Primi
PB Tessera (20mm, 3.65 g)
Three aspects of Hekate
LVOLV/ SIPRIMI
Rostowzew 1345, pl. XI 23 (cast from same mold as illustrated specimen); München 237; Kircheriano 405-8; BM 1349-50

Ex Mark Staal Three Graces Collection; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 232, Lot 515 (part of); purchased from Mediterranean Coins, April 2004

Rostowzew places this with the "Tesserae nominibus virorum et mulierum signatae."
Ardatirion

ROME
PB Tessera (17mm, 2.96 g, 12 h)
The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view
Modius with three grain ears
Rostovtzev 358; Milan 52; München 67-70; BM 1330-3, 1335-8, 1340-1; Staal Appendix A, p. 148 (this coin illustrated)

Ex Mark Staal Three Graces Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 300), lot 432 (part of)1 commentsArdatirion

ROME
PB Tessera (17mm, 2.80 g, 12h)
The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view
Modius with three grain ears
Rostovtzev 358.72 = Scholz 461 (this coin); Milan 52; München 67-70; BM 1330-3, 1335-8, 1340-1

Ex Trau CollectionArdatirion

IONIA, Ephesos
PB Tessera (20mm, 3.30 g)
The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view
Blank
Gülbay & Kireç 53 var. (reverse type)

Ex Mark Staal Three Graces Collection; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 232, lot 515 (part of). Found near Ephesus.Ardatirion

IONIA, Ephesos
PB Tessera (18mm, 4.03 g)
The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view
Blank
Gülbay & Kireç 53 var. (reverse type)

Ex Mark Staal Three Graces Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 300), lot 432 (part of)1 commentsArdatirion

IONIA, Ephesos
PB Tessera (12mm, 1.43 g)
Comedy and tragedy masks; AÎžI below
The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view
Cf. Gülbay & Kireç 140-2/53 (for obv./rev.)Ardatirion

IONIA, Ephesos
PB Tessera
The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view; uncertain legend around
Blank
Gülbay & Kireç -Ardatirion

(0238) GORDIAN III 238-244. AD
(Dated CY 261 = 242/3 AD
Æ 20 mm 5.02 g
O: Laureate head right
R: The Three Graces.
CILICIA, ANAZARBUS
Ziegler 683 (Vs1/Rs5); SNG Levante 1485laney

1ad Cleopatra VII51-29 BC

Alexandria, 80 Drachmai

Diademed, draped bust, right, KLEOPATRAS BASILIS[SHS]
Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, cornucopia in left field, mark of value P (= 80) in right field

Svoronos 1871

Plutarch wrote: [Cleopatra] was to meet Antony in the time of life when women's beauty is most splendid, and their intellects are in full maturity. . . . She received several letters, both from Antony and from his friends, to summon her, but she took no account of these orders; and at last, as if in mockery of them, she came sailing up the river Cydnus, in a barge with gilded stern and outspread sails of purple, while oars of silver beat time to the music of flutes and fifes and harps. She herself lay all along under a canopy of cloth of gold, dressed as Venus in a picture, and beautiful young boys, like painted Cupids, stood on each side to fan her. Her maids were dressed like sea nymphs and graces, some steering at the rudder, some working at the ropes. The perfumes diffused themselves from the vessel to the shore, which was covered with multitudes, part following the galley up the river on either bank, part running out of the city to see the sight. The market-place was quite emptied, and Antony at last was left alone sitting upon the tribunal; while the word went through all the multitude, that Venus was come to feast with Bacchus, for the common good of Asia. On her arrival, Antony sent to invite her to supper. She thought it fitter he should come to her; so, willing to show his good-humour and courtesy, he complied, and went. . . . For her actual beauty, it is said, was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no one could see her without being struck by it, but the contact of her presence, if you lived with her, was irresistible; the attraction of her person, joining with the charm of her conversation, and the character that attended all she said or did, was something bewitching. It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter. . . .Blindado

1bk Faustina JuniorWife of Marcus Aurelius. 131-176

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Draped bust, left, FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL
Juno seated left holding the three graces and scepter, peacock at feet, IVNO SC

The daughter of Antoninus Pius, wife of Aurelius, and mother of Commodus, Faustina had a box seat to witness the end of the Golden Age. She bore Aurelius at least 13 children and accompanied him on his military campaigns, yet years later had her reputation impuned for alleged adultery.

The reverse is RIC 1400, for which only right-facing busts are listed.

From Curtis Clay: "This is a rev. type that used to be very rare, even with bust right, but quite a few specimens have emerged from Bulgaria since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

I had a specimen with bust left myself, acquired from Baldwin's c. 1970, which is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

A VF specimen with bust left, from the same dies as yours, was in CNG E54, 4 Dec. 2002, 145 = CNG 57, 4 April 2001, 1292.

Still an interesting and scarce reverse type, and rare with bust left, a variety that is hard to find on any Roman coin of Faustina II !" Thank you, Curtis!Blindado

201a. Julia Domna; Marcianopolis, Moesia InferiorMoesia Inferior Marcianopolis

Attribution: AMNG (PICK) 210
Date: 193-217 AD
Obverse: Julia right
Reverse: Three Graces facing
Size: 22.15mm
Weight: 5.42 grams
Description: ex ANA Bourse 2000, ex Mark Staal collection
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AphroditeAphrodite is the greek goddess of beauty and love. She is much older and more primordial than Venus. Venus was a more local goddess and came to Rome not before the 4th century. Aphrodite is melted together of indoeuropean-hellenistic, aegaean-anatolean and semitic-oriental elements. The origin of her name is unknown, perhaps it is related to the sem.*asthart. Her relation to Cyprus is referring to that origin. Possibly the name of the month April comes from etruscan *aprodita. So there could be an etruscan intermediation. She seems to be a conglomerate of old fertility goddesses. Her attributes dolphin and shell points to marine, dove, sparrow and and swane to caelestic and apple, rose and pomegranat to herbal sexual spheres. With Homer Aphrodíte replaces the dark weird deities as a light goddess of charm and gracefulness. She was called 'philommeides', the smiling, and she was the mistress of the Graces.
On the rev. of this coin we see Aphrodite as a later depiction as goddess of grace and seduction. She holds a mirror as the symbol of vanity. Her companions are two Erotes with torches to ignite love.
2 commentsJochen

ATTICA, ATHENS, 121-120 BCTetradrachm, 29mm, 16.8g
"Three graces" type New Style, Magistrates EURYKLEI, ARIARI and XENOKRA. Control ΔI.

O: Head of Athena wearing triple crested Arthenian helmet ornamented with Pegasos and foreparts of horses
R: Owl stg r facing an upturned amphora, 3 figures adv

SGC-25574 commentsrobertpe

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC AR Tetradrachm, 27mm, 16.6g, 12h, New Style. Socrates, Dionysodoros, and Zoilos, magistrates. Struck 116/5 BC.
Obv.: Helmeted head of Athena right.
Rev.: A-ΘE / ΣOKΡ / ATHΣ / ΔIONΥ / ΣOΔΩ / MOY / ΣΩI; Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; in right field, facing cult statue of Apollo Delios, holding Three Graces and bow; B on amphora, ΣO below.
Reference: Thompson 616a / 17-47-6011 commentsJohn Anthony

BCC LT19 and LT20Caesarea Maritima
2 Small Lead Tesserae
1st-3rd Century CE?
Obv:Three Graces standing.
Rev: Blank
Surface finds from 1973.
LT19: 10.1 x 9.75mm 0.99gm.
LT20: 10.5 x 8.75mm. 0.94gm.v-drome

BCC LT37Lead Tessera
Caesarea Maritima
Obv:Three Graces standing.
Rev: Blank
10x9.5mm. 0.52gm.
cf. BCC LT19 and Lt20
also Hamburger #64v-drome

BCC LT87 Lead Tessera Three Graces/BirdLead Tessera
Caesarea Maritima
Obv: The Three Graces, dancing?.
Rev: Bird
9.0 x 7.5 x 2.0mm. 0.52gm.
cf. BCC LT19, LT20, LT37, and LT89
also Hamburger #65
Surface find Caesarea Maritima ca.1975
J. Berlin Caesarea Collectionv-drome

BCC LT89 Lead Tessera Three GracesLead Tessera
Obv:Three Graces standing.
Rev: Blank
Clipped. The Three Graces is a
well-known motif from gems and tesserae.
This is the fifth example from the current
assemblage, all from Caesarea Maritima.
12.5 x 8.0 x 1.25mm. 0.71gm.
cf. BCC LT19, LT20, LT37, and LT87
also Hamburger #64
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1977
J. Berlin Caesarea Collectionv-drome

COMMODUSAE 26. Marcianopolis. 177-192 AD. 9,04 grs. Bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust right. AV KAI Λ AVPH KOMOΔOC / The Three Graces
(Charites) the central figure seen from behind, embracing each other. Left Charis holding kantharos and dolphin at her feet, right holding wreath and kantharos at feet. MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN.
Varbanov 705.
1 commentsbenito

Commodus Triassarion, Marcianopolis. AΥ•KΛ AΥΠ KOMOΔOC, Bare headed and draped bust right

MAΡKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, The Three Graces standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view; the left holding wreath, the right holding kantharos.

AMNG I 540 Varbanov 705. Will Hooton

Commodus, Markianopolis, Three Graces, AE24Bronze AE 24, Varbanov obv 704 / rev 705 (obverse legend not listed for this reverse variety), gF, holed, 6.7g, 24.3mm, 45°, Markianopolis mint, obverse AU•KL AUP KOMODOC, draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse MARKIANOPOLEITWN, the three Graces side by side, Grace on left holds amphora, on right holds wreath (variety without dolphin and amphora at feet); very rare variety
GICV -

ex FORVMareich

Denar, RIC 3, p.272, 731 var. - Faustina II, Venus holding the Three GracesFaustina II
AR-Denar, Rome
Obv.: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right
Rev.: VENVS FELIX, Venus seated left, holding the three graces and sceptre
Ag, 2.76g, 18mm
Ref.: RIC III -, CRE 241 [R2]shanxi

Egypt, Alexandria, Hadrian, Milne 844Hadrian, AD 117-138
struck AD 117-118
obv. AVT KAIC TRAIANOC ADRIANOC
Bust, draped, laureate, r.
rev. Euthenia, clad in the garment of Isis with the typical pectoral knot, wearing Uraeus crown
and grain(?) , leaning l., resting with l. arm on small sphinx, laying r., and holding in raised
r. hand grain-ears, poppies and lotus-flower(?)
in field LB (= year 2)
Milne 822; BMC -
VF, brown patina
From Forum Ancient Coins, thanks!

The portrait of Hadrian is unusual and reminds of Caligula(!). This often appears on Alexandrian coins where the typical Roman Imperial portraits are found some times later in the reign of the emperor.
Euthenia was the goddess or spirit (daimon) of prosperity, abundance and plenty. She appears to have been one of a group of four younger Graces, the others being her sisters Eukleia (Good Repute), Eupheme (Acclaim) and Philophrosyne (Welcome) (from www.theoi.com)
Jochen

gadaraspijk083Elagabalus
Gadara

Obv: ΑV Κ Μ ΑVP ΑΝΤѠΝΙΝΟ[C]; radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind.
Rev: [ΓΑΔAΡΕѠΝ Κ CΡ], the Three Graces in usual attitude; [AΠC] (date) above.
22 mm, 9.39 gms

Sofaer 90; Spijkerman 83; Rosenberger 87; SNG ANS 1331.

From Roma Numismatics E-Sale 62, lot 606.Charles M

Iulia Domna MarcianopolisAE 23 (7.85g)
rev. IOVLIA D - OMNA CEB
draped bust right
obv. M - AR - KIAN - OPOL - I - TWNhe
Three Graces sanding front arm in arm, the left and the middle facing each other, the right head l., the left and right each holding kantharosHolgerG

Julia Domna, MarkianopolisJulia Domna
Ae 25mm; 8.46g; Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior.

IOVLIA DOMNA CEB
draped bust right

MARKIANOROLITWN
The Three Graces

Varbanov 883 var
Hristova/Jekov No.6.17.26.1 var. (different break of obv. legend)
1 commentsarizonarobin

Julia Domna, MarkianopolisJulia Domna
Moesia, Markianopolis
Ae 25mm; 8.01g

IOVLIA D-OMNA CEB
draped bust right

MAR-KIAN-OPOL-I-TWN
Three Graces1 commentsarizonarobin

Julia Domna, Markianopolis, three graces, AE22AE22, 6.3 g
obv: IOVΛIA ΔOMNA CEB, draped bust right
rev: MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, the three graces
GICV -1 commentsareich

Macrinus - GadaraAR tetradrachm
217-218 AD
laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
AVT·K·M·OΠ·CE·_MAKPEINOC C
eagle facing, head left, wreath in beak, Three Graces standing within wreath between legs
Δ_HMAPX_·EΞ·YΠATOC Π Π
Prieur 1606 var. (obv. legend)
13,7g 24mm
ex DionysosJ. B.

MAFJa1 SeparationFaustina II

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Draped bust, left, FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL
Juno seated left holding the three graces and scepter, peacock at feet, IVNO SC

The reverse is RIC 1400, for which only right-facing busts are listed.

Faustina was to spend years apart from her husband and probably traumatized as a mother shortly before his departure. The Historia Augusta records, "When about the set off for the German war. . . [Marcus] gave his daughter [Annia Aurelia Galeria Faustina] to [Gnaeus] Claudius [Severus, a Roman Senator from Pompeiopolis], a [man] of advanced age, son of a Roman knight and not of sufficiently noble family (subsequently [Marcus] made him Consul twice)--since his daughter was an Augusta and the daughter of an Augusta. But both Faustina and the girl who was being given in marriage regarded this wedding with reluctance. . . . Just before the day of his actual departure, [Marcus] lost his seven-year-old son, Verus Caesar by name, after an operation on a tumor under the ear. He mourned him for no more than five days, and after comforting the doctors returned to the affairs of state." How long, one wonders, did Faustina mourn?

According to the Historia Augusta, which at many points tends toward salacious gossip, "it is reasonably well known that Faustina chose both sailors and gladiators as paramours for herself at Caieta [where the couple spent several years after their marriage]. When Marcus was told about her, so that he might divorce her--if not execute her--he is reported to have said, "If we send our wife away, we must give back her dowry, too--and what dowry did he have but the empire. . . ?" During the German war, the text alleges, Faustina took pantomimists as lovers.

Whether or not the rumors had any basis in fact, Marcus thought highly of his wife and family situation. In his first meditation, he thanks the gods that "I have such a wife, so obedient, and so affectionate, and so simple; that I had abundance of good masters for my children." Perhaps the word from the horse's mouth is a better source than a history written more than a century later.

At some point, Marcus apparently saw the light, and Faustina joined him at the frontier. The Historia Augusta relates, "He had her with him even in the campaigning season, and [after her death] for this reason he gave her the title 'Mother of the Camp.'"Blindado

Provincial, Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, AE25, MAPKIANΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝAE25
Roman Provincial: Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior
Julia Domna
Born circa: 170AD - Died: 217AD
Augusta: 193 - 217AD
25.0mm 8.26gr 1h
O: IΟνΛΙA ΔΟΜΝΑ CΕΒ; Draped bust, hair in bun, right.
R: MAPKIANOΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ; Statuary group of the three Graces, standing. Outer two facing, with heads turned inward. Middle with back facing and arms around other two.
Markianapolis, Moesia Inferior Mint
AMNG I 603; H & J Markianopolis 6.17.26.9 (I believe); Varbanov 887 var. (Obv. legend: CEB instead of just C) rated R4; Moushmov 417 (?).
Savoca Auctions 13th Blue Auction, Lot 731.
12/1/18 12/11/18
Nicholas Z

Syria, Decapolis, Gadara. Gordian III. The Three Graces.AD 238-244. Æ20, 3.60g., 11h. Dated CY 304 (AD 240/1).
Obv: Radiate head right,
Rev: The Three Graces.
Rosenberger 92; Spijkerman 92; SNG ANS 1341. ancientone

Three GracesJulia Domna
AE 29
Pautalia, Thrace

Draped bust right, IOVLIA DOMNA CEB
PAVTALIAC, Three Graces

Varbanov 2, 3183Blindado

Three Graces, Goddesses of charm, beauty and culture.Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus, Augusta, 193-217 CE.
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, Æ (24mm, 8.6 gm).
Obv: IOLAIA DOMNA CEB, Draped bust right, hair in bun.
Rev: MARKIANOPOLITWN, Statuary group of the Three Graces side by side.
Sear Greek Imp. 2313; AMNG (Pick) 603; Moushmov 417.

The three Graces, named Euphrosyne, Aglaia and Thalia, were the attendants of Venus/Aphrodite. They are shown on Roman provincial coins as a statuary group, nude and sometimes holding apples.2 comments

Turkey, Antalya, Archaeological Museum of Antalya.The Three Graces, removed from Perge.
Photograph by Will Hooton*Alex

V-MARCUS AURELIUS -b- 001 AE22 THRACIA // PAUTALIAAv) AVPHÎ›IOC OVHPOC KAICAP
Bare, draped bust left

Rv) Î AVTAÎ›IATÎ©N
The three Graces standing dressed right

Weight:8,24g; Ø: 22mm; Reference: Imhoof-Blumer 187/500

Note: The three Graces, named Euphrosyne, Aglaia and Thalia, were the attendants of Aphrodite (Venus). They are shown on Roman provincial coins as a statuary group, nude or nearly dressed and sometimes holding apples, but here they are completely dressed

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