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AGNES BALDWIN
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NUMISMATIC
NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS
Editor : Sydney P. Noe
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COPYRIGHT 1923 BY
THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY
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Horse advancing to the right on exergual line, left foreleg raised: border
of dots.
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This Antinous medallion of Veturius
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Museum ( B . M. Cat. Peloponnesus
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as a veiled woman.
numismatic issues (cf. B. M. Cat. Thessaly, PI. xix, 16, a Nicopolis coin with an
entirely similar reverse to the Antinous
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coin, but bearing the head of Philip,
This is especially clear in the case of
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MEDALLIONS 7
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tached to him. I never saw him in
Emperor established his worship in Mantinea also and mysteries are celebrated in
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cult.3 The inscription enables us to assign this piece to Arcadia, and the occur-
be created for the Graeco-Roman pantheon. The ultimate source of his di-
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where gods and superstition were innumerable. Doubtless, however, his fame as
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s.
v.,
ii
Antinoeia).
The
institut
age
when
become
ligion.
an
emperor
integral
However,
worship
part
of
there
the
was
no
belong
to
the
Roman
hence it is not surprising that the majority of the medallions are found to
have been struck in Egypt and in Asia,
the land of the Diadochi, the heirs to
Alexander's kingdom, who inherited with
political rights the tradition of tfie divinity of rulers established by Alexander.
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164 A.D.
2. Obv. M. AVREL. ANTONINVS AVG.
P. M. IMP. II. TR. P. XVIII. COS. III.
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gorial personification. The empress herself, rather than the goddess Salus, nour-
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Hence she may as a human personification feed her serpent entwined about her
own figure as an agalma.
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166 A.D.
3. Obv. L. VERVS AVG. ARM. PARTII.
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were bestowed upon him after the successful conclusion of the wars in Ar-
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patination. Unique. Pierpont Morgan Coll. (Formerly Martinetti-Nervegna Coll., PI. xxviii, 2277. Gnecchi,
No. 10, PI. 76, 7. Plate IV.
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(Cohen Nos. 18-26, coins; No. 104, medallion) as on those of the two Faustinas
preceding her, it is argued that the coins
themselves prove that she did have children. Cohen, too, comments on the
Fecunditas as well as on the Juno Lucina
types of her coinage as apparently indi-
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man Medallions , PI. xxiv, 3). The headdress of the empress, her portraiture
and pose are exactly the same on both
medallions. The Faustina medallion in
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On the whole, it would seem more
reasonable to follow the established in-
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242 A.D.
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"the only case," Cohen says. The inference from the Greek inscription
naturally is that the temple here shown
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as representing Mars, rather than Victory (so also Grueber). From a comparison of the figure on the similar medallion, the figure, small though it is,
seems to be certainly that of Mars. Both
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at the Antinoia.
the year 19-16=51-50 b.c., and was consequently struck during his lifetime, since he was
killed in 48 b.c. Antony and Caesar also were
deified at the time of their pro-consulship in
Asia, as was also Titus Quinctius Flamininus
in Macedonia. The significance of the star accompanying Pompey's head on the coin of SoliPompeiopolis is, . therefore, perfectly clear.
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cation.
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from whom Julius Caesar claimed to be descended through his supposed ancestor, Apneas,
whereas the Seleucid star seems rather to symbolize the ruler's claim to have become the god
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crown, on the coins struck in honor of the dei-
no. 1).
of this very ancient star symbol on the medallions of Napoleon I, which are replete with
classical symbolism and types. The star ap-
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Histoire Mtallique de Napolon, 1819. Pl.
xlviii, 236) exactly as it is found above the
heads of Julius Caesar and Augustus on Roman
coins. It also appears in the field behind the
head on a medal on which Napoleon is represented with the features of Augustus (/. c., PI.
gustan emblem.
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Plate I
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Plate II
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Plate III
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Plate IV
Medallion of Lucilla
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Plate V
Medallion ot Lucilla
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Plate VI
MedallfW^BWaanus III
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