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30 Sep - Roman -- (100-80 B.C.) -- AE Janus / Prow of gallery -- Sear- -- -- ( mm)

Roman Coins

Value	Year	Mark	Quality	Variation	Issiue	Reference	Notice
As	About 200 B.C.	- - -	1?/2	Janus / Prow of gallery	?	Sear:	Wolf(dog) above
As	About 80-50 B.C.	- - -	1?	Janus / Prow of gallery	?	Sear:	ROMA below
As	About 80-50 B.C.	- - -	1?	Janus / Prow of gallery	?	Sear:	NATILI above
As	About 80-50 B.C.	- - -	1?	Janus / Prow of gallery	?	Sear:	AC above and I at right
As (AE)	About 100-50 B.C.	- - -	1?	Janus / Prow of gallery	?	Sear:	AC above and I at right
M. Aemilius Scarus & Pub. Platius Hypsaeus
AR Denarius	58 B.C.	- - -	?	M SCAVR AED CVR EX S C / P HVPSAEVS AED CVR CAPTV C HVPSAE COS PREIVER	?	Sear-299 ; (Sear2000-379). Cr422/1b, Syd 913.	Nabatean king Aretas kneeling before camel / Jupiter in quadriga right; scorpion to left.

Unidentified coins ( 100 - 22 B.C. )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
? (24 mm)	100-22 B.C.	Copper	Asia ?	2	Bare hd of ? / Temple ?	Sear: ?	- - -
? (24-25 mm)	100-22 B.C.	Copper	Asia ?	2	Bare hd of ? / Temple ?	Sear: ?	- - -
? (24-25 mm)	100-22 B.C.	Copper	Asia ?	2	Bare hd of ? / ?	Sear: ?	- - -

Cnaeus Pompey Junior ( 79 - 45 B.C. )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
As	106-48 B.C.	Copper	?	1?/2	Janus / Prow of gallery	Sear:339 ?	- - -
This coin was bought as Pompey the Great, but ?. (Cnaeus Pompeius). Born in 79 B.C., as the elder son of Pompey the Great and Mucia. During the course of the African War he crossed to Spain via the Baltic Islands, and was joined by his younger brother Sextus, and Titus Labienus following the Pompeian defeat at Thapus 46 B.C.. The military activities in the Iberian peninsula necessiated Caesarīs intervention, and in 45 B.C. the dictator defeated the Pompeians at Munda. Sextus escaped, but Cnaeus was captured and executed.

Julius Caesar ( xx - 44 B.C )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Denarius	46-45 B.C.	Silver	?	1+/1	Diad hd of Venus / Male and female Gaulish captives seated at foot of trophy	Sear:357	CAESAR in ex
Born in year 100 B.C. Even as a young man he soon become prominent figuer amongst the aristocracy of Rome and in 60 B.C. he was elected consul after having formed the first triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus. The years 58-50 B.C. were spent in almost continuous campaigning in Gaul and it was during this period that Caesar made his two expeditions to Britain (55-54 B. C.). The senate succeed to peruade Pompey to support them and declaied that Caesar do not could to bee re-elected, and also declamed him as hostile community. He defeated Pompay at Pharsalus in 48 B.C. and spent the next two years defeating the remnants of the Pompeian party. He returned to Rome as undisputed master of the Roman world, but after only a short period of supreme power a conspiracy against his life formed and he was assassinated on the Ides (15th) of March, 44 B.C.

Octavian ( xx - xx )
as Augustus, see below
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Sestertius	38 B.C.	Copper	?	2	Bare hd of Octavian / Laur.hd of Julius Caesar	Sear:465	- - -

Augustus ( 27 B.C. - 14 A.D. )
as Octavian, see above
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
?	27 B.C.- 14	Copper	?	2	?	Sear:?	- - -

Agrippa ( - 12 B.C. )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
AS (28mm)	- 12 B.C.	Copper	?	VG	M AGRIPPA F COS III Head left, wearing rostal crown rev: S C	Sear: 556	Neptun stg l, holding dolphin and trient.
( Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa ). Born 63 B.C. He was a close friend of Augustus from boyhood. A renowned commander by both land and sea, he was destined by Augustus to succed him, but he pre-deceased the imperor in 12 B.C. It has been written of Agruppa That "he is the supreme example in history of a man of the first order whom loyality constrained to take the second place". This coin are strucked by Tiberius or Caligula.

Tiberius ( 14 - 37 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Tiberian countermark (mm)	14 - 37	Copper	?	?	?	Sear:	?

Claudius ( 41 - 54 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
AS (25mm)	41 - 54	Copper	?	?	?	Sear: 1862 (2000)	?
( Tiberius Claudius Drusus ). The younger son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia. Claudius was born at Lugdunum in 10 B.C. A childhood attack of infantile paralysis had left him with grotesque appearance and was also generally assumed that he was weakminded. He thus took little part in public life, devoting himself to antiquarian studies, until, on the death of his nephew Caligula, he was proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard. It soon become clear that he was by no means a weak-minded as people that thought, and in face he proved himself a very capable administrator. In A.D. 43 he personally took part in the invasion of Britain, thus beginning the Roman occupation to last until the fifth century. He married his nice, Agrippina Junior, in A.D. 49 and in the following year he adopted her son, Nero, who then become the heir to the throne. He died on October 13th, A.D. 54, possibly as the result of poison administrated on the orders of Agrippina.

Nero ( 54 - 68 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
AS (mm)	-	Copper	?	?	?	Sear: ?	?
AS (29mm)	54 - 68	Copper	?	?	?	Sear: ?	?
The son of Cn. Domitius Ahenbarbus and Agrippa Junior. Nero was born at Antium in A.D. 37. Originally named L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, this was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus after his adoption by Claudius in A.D. 50. He succeeded to the throne in A.D. 54 and at first the government was in the captable hands of Seneca and Burrus. The young emperior soon decided to free himself from all restraints, however, and after the death of Burrus (A.D. 62) and the retirement of Seneca, Neroīs conduct become unbridled. He was very enthusiatic about art and sport but his extravagances and varity made him most unpopular and he was murdered that he started the great fire which destroyed half of Rome in A.D. 64. At last, in A.D. 68, revolt broke out in Gail, Spain and Africa. the Praetorians at Rome deserted him and Nero fled and committed suicide.

Titus ( 79 - 81 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
AS (259mm)	79 - 81	Copper	?	1?	(.....CAES AVG TR P) / (IMP TV(A?S?))	Sear: ?	.
(Titus Flavius Vespasianus). Born in A.D. 41, Titus was the elder son of Vespian and Flavia Domitillia and was educated with Britannicus, the ill-fated son of Claudius. He later served in Germany and Britain and commanded a legion in his fatherīs Jewish campaign. When Vespasian left to assume the purple, Titus remained to carry on the war and captured Jerusalem in A.D. 70. On his return to Rome, Vespasian made him his colleague in the goverment and his succession in A.D. 79 was thus smooth. He proved himself a most benevolent emperor and his premature death in A.D. 81 caused great sorrow.

Domitianus ( 81 - 91 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
AS	81-91	Copper	?	1?	(IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XI(-XVII) CENS PER P P / (COS XIII) MONETA AVGVSTI	Sear: 913	Moneta stg left.

Trajan ( 98 - 117 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
AS	81-91	AE-Copper	?	?	IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M / TR POT COS III P P S C	Sear: 1022	Victory advancng l. holding shield inscibed S P Q R
Marcus Ulpius Trajanus was born near Sevilla in Spain about A.D. 52., as son of a Governor. He held several important military posts and was eventually appointed governor of upper Germany by Nerva who adopted him as the heir of the throne. On his succession, Trajan decided that the time was ripe for expansion and he successfully undertook the conquest of Dacia which them become a Roman province. The famous column which was erected to commemorate Trajanīs Dacian wars still stands in Rome, Between 106 to 113, he also carried out a spectaculor building programme in Rome and he constructed or repaired many roads, bridges, The harbour in Ostia and Ancona, and aqueducts throughout the Empire. In the latter part of his reign, Trojan succed to take several provinces in the easten frontier. After he returned to Rome to direc opeations, but he died on the journey at Selinus in Cecilia (August, A.D. 117).

Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Dupondius (26 mm)	138 - 161	AE- copper	?	1	ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P ... / S C ... AVG	Sear: 128x ?	? stg.
(22-24 mm) no:1)	138 - 161	AE- copper	?	1/1?	IMP TUO.OTANVS PIUS P EL AVG / PART...A AVG ND	Sear: ?	? stg.
Tiyus Fulvus Arrius Antoninus Born at Lanuvium in A.D. 86. He Adopteda senatoral career and was consul in 120, later distinguishing himself as proconsul in Asia. He was adopted by Hadrian as his on February 25th, 138 and during the emperorīs last month, Antoninus was virtually ruler and his succession on July 10th was smooth. The history of his reign almost a blank in the records, owning to the tranquillity and prosperity which the Roman world enjoyed under his patient, Judicious and imperial rule. He died at Lorium on March 7th, A.D. 161 and was succeeded by Marcus Aurelius who had been selected by Hadrianus as the eventual heir to the throne.

Faustina Senior [ -141 ]
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Denar (18mm)	- 141	Silver	?	1+/1	DIVA FAVSTINA / AVGESTA	Sear: 1351 / 4583 (2002)	Vesta stg l, holding simulium and palladium ?.
Wife of Antoninus Pius, whom she married before his accession and mother of Faustina Junior. She died in A.D. 141 and was consecrated by Antoninus who also issued a very extensive commermorative in her rumour.

Hadrianus ( 117 - 138 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Sestertie (32mm)	117 - 138	AE	?	1?	Type B or F / ?	Sear: 3571 (2002)	Hadrian stg l raising kneeing figure ?.
P. Aelius Hadrianus was born at Italica in A.D. 76. He lost his father at the age of ten, was placed under the care of guardians, one of whom was the future emperior Trajan. He soon embarked upon a military career and in A.D. 100 he married Trajanīs grand-nice, Sabina. He was appointed governor of Syria during Trajanīs Parthian war and was adopted by the emperor shortly before the latterīs death. Much of Hadrianīs reign was spent in visiting the provinces of his vast empire, and he greatly improved the defences of the frontiers. He is best known in his county as the builder of the great wall from the Tyne to the Solway: much of this immense work is still to be seen. There is little doubt that he was one of the most capable emperors who ever occupied the throne and he devoted his whole life to the improvement of the state His rule was firm and humane and he was also a patron of the arts. He died at Baise on July 10th, A.D. 138, after a long illness.

Sabina [ - 137 ]
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Sestertie (30mm)	- 137	Copper	?	1?/2	? / ?	Sear:	Figure ? seated l.
The daughter of Matidia and grandnice of Trajan, Sabina married Hadrian in A.D. 100. She accompanied her husband on most of his journeys, but their marriage was very unhappy. She died in A.D. 137 and was consecrated by Hadrian.

Julia Domna ( 193 - 211 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Denar	193 - 211	Silver	?	1 / 1?	IVLIA AVGVSTA / HILARITAS	Sear: 1839	Hilaritas stg left.
Born at Emesa in Syria. In A.D. 173 she was married to Septimius Severus as his second wife. She bored him two sons, Caracalla in 188 and Geta in 189. Both become to be emperiors. She was a brilliant intelliected woman and S. Severus often consulted her in on matters of importance. In 217, after the murder of her son Caracalla, she committed suicide by a volutary abstinence from food.

Geta ( 209 - 212 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Denar	198 - 209	Silver	?	1	P SEPT GETA CAES PONT / PRINC INVENT	Sear: 2018	Geta stg l beside trophy branch and spear.
(L. or P Septimius Geta). Born at Rome in A.D. 189. The younger son of Septimus Severus and Julia Domna. In 198 he got the title of Caesar and his elder brother, Caracalla, got the title of Augustus. Geta was rased to the rank of Augustus in A.D. 209. There fathers clear intension was that the brothers should inherit the throne jointly, but the Jealous older brother Carcalla would not admit of this arrangement and Geta was murdered in February A.D. 212, after only near of a year of joint-rule. At the same time, as it was said, Caracalla let murdered twenty thousands people as thinkable resistances.

Elagabalus ( 218 - 222 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Billon tetradrachm	218 - 222	Copper	Syria, Antioch	1	Lair.hd / Eagle stg	Sear:2141	- - -

Severus Alexander ( 222 - 235 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Denar	222 - 235	AR / Silver	?	1 / 1?	IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG / P M TR P VII COS II P P	Sear: 2226	Equity stg l.
Denar (coin no.2). (26-28mm)	222 - 235	AE / Copper	?	1?	IMP C M _ĻMAXEST_ _ ALEXANDVS AVG / VICTORIA AVGVSTI	Sear: 2269v	Victoria stg l.

Gordian III ( 238 - 244 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Antoninianus	238 - 244	Silver	?	1+/1	IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG / P M TR P II COS P P	Sear:2446	Jupiter stg holding thunderbolt and sceptre
Antoninianus	238-244	Silver	?	1+/1	IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG / PROVID AVG	Sear:2457	Providence stg, globe at feet

Trajan Decius ( 249 - 251 )
Value	Year	Metal	Mint marks	Quality	Variation	Reference	Notice
Antoninianus	249 - 251	Silver	?	1+	IMP C M TRAIARUS DECIVS AVG / GENIUS EXERL ILLYRICI	Sear:2697	Genius stg with standard to right

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