Mariniana
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Been awhile since I posted any new additions. Latest is a new empress I have needed that also comes with good provenance, Hans Schulman, more about him: http://www.neilsberman.com/schulman.htm
Mariniana (254 - 258 A.D.)
AR Antoninianus
O: DIVAE MARINIANAE, Veiled and draped bust right, set on crescent.
R: CONSECRATIO, Apotheosis of Mariniana: Mariniana, raising hand and holding scepter, reclining left on pea***** flying upward to the right.
Rome Mint
22mm
3.3g
RIC 6
Ex Hans Schulman April 21, 1962
Mariniana (254 - 258 A.D.)
AR Antoninianus
O: DIVAE MARINIANAE, Veiled and draped bust right, set on crescent.
R: CONSECRATIO, Apotheosis of Mariniana: Mariniana, raising hand and holding scepter, reclining left on pea***** flying upward to the right.
Rome Mint
22mm
3.3g
RIC 6
Ex Hans Schulman April 21, 1962
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It's been too long since I was working on that big "A to Z" emperor and empress Roman collection, so my memory is slipping!
Those posthumous "riding an eagle" or "riding a peacock" types are neat.
And an old pedigree is always fun!
I was thinking she might've been the wife of Trajan Decius or somebody like that, so I was in the right general ballpark chronologically, but after a quick peek at Wikipedia I see it says she was probably the spouse of Valerian and mother of Galerius. Neat.
You've gotta love those "probablies" and the vagueness of ancient history sometimes. The aura of mystery is interesting. I take it from the sparseness of the Wikipedia article on Mariniana that's she's one of those ancient elites we know very little about except from coin evidence.
Pretty much every empress after the Severan era is vague on info except Helena and some scattered others.
Interesting that Rome even had their own air force back then
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Especially since we didn't get ours until 1947.
Roman's were ahead of their time in many ways!
The Romans had a space program up and running by around 64 AD, as evidenced by the space shuttle seen blasting off behind lady Victory on the reverse of this dupondius.
(Which, I might add, went off to live with Aethelred after he drugged me or conked me over the head or something. My memories of the event are rather hazy, but I must not have been in my right mind at the time.)
Edit: oh, yeah. THIS is what Aethelred conked me over the head with. His very trademark and namesake coin.
Maybe I was in my right mind after all.
Air force, schmair force.
The Romans had a space program up and running by around 64 AD, as evidenced by the space shuttle seen blasting off behind lady Victory on the reverse of this dupondius.
(Which, I might add, went off to live with Aethelred after he drugged me or conked me over the head or something. My memories of the event are rather hazy, but I must not have been in my right mind at the time.)
Edit: oh, yeah. THIS is what Aethelred conked me over the head with. His very trademark and namesake coin.
Maybe I was in my right mind after all.
Haha, and yup, see that reverse often. It has a blast off look.
Roman's were ahead of their time in many ways!
Yes, they truly were. It never ceases to amaze me what the ancient Romans and Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese and Japanese, and so many other ancient cultures managed to achieve without machines. Without electricity. Without telephones or morse code. Without PAPER for so many centuries.
What would our coins say, if they could talk? Disappointment in the world state of affairs?
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