Ancient Coins: The Gods on Coinage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- The Graeco-Roman Pantheon is a fascinating assembly of gods and semi-divine being that encompass and incarnate all aspects of the human experience taken to the extreme.
On a mostly illiterate society, they were the ideal tools to pass certain messages through what each god represented, and were masterfully adapted to coinage as a way of state propaganda.
Today, we´re going on a numismatic tour of the Olympus, having a peek at some Roman and Greek coins featuring the Gods!
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Really well made videos.. I'm 23, and wondering if this could be my lifetime hobby... I love Greek and Roman history.
I´ve started when I was 26, and it feels like it will be my lifetime hobby as well :)
I'm 24 and so far, I'm having a blast with collecting and displaying my Roman-Greco coins!
Gods..legends..kings, these elements made ancients coin so fascinating
This excellent video and others inspired me to look more closely at divinities on Greek coins- and now I'm the happy owner of two of those shown: the Poseidon, and the Athena/ Hippocampus, and I just love them. I also got a beautiful Tanit. I only wish these were available in silver as well!
I'd love to have a Roman Imperial coin with the Magna Mater, Cybele.
Look for coins of Septimius Severus.
I’ve been thinking about building a type set of Greek gods. I think they’re so interesting!
Very interesting and well made video. I never knew Athena's helmet was raised like that. I have some of these coins. I recently bought the Poseidon coin in mint state.
I love your vids about Roman and Greek coinages, might i suggest that you come a bit east too? you know, chinese coins, India's gupta, maurya, gandhara, cholas, Western Kshatraps, Kushans; Thai etc.
You are absolutely right! I´ve recently purchased some interesting indian coins, and Im studying them on my spare time to give proper information on a video! I also want to get a punchmarked coin, from the very early ones to show :)
@@ClassicalNumismatics I have a punchmarked coin, I can help a bit, if you want (it isn't in a good condition though, and I have little knowledge required to make a video about it)
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Yes! A video about the Parthian Empire coins would be amazing too, I've started to seek out coins from Ancient China as well.
The Diocletian is a pretty cool error coin, looks like the die was filled with debris in a few letters.
Indeed! Its odd because in some areas we can see the die was quite fresh, as the coin is really clear everywhere else.
They really had quite a terrible quality control at that time.
@@ClassicalNumismatics totally, the rest of it is incredibly crisp. Very unusual looking coin.
Regarding deities, I'd like to collect all of them. My favorite ones currently are Jupiter with legend IOVI STATORI and Diana (DIANA LVCIFERA)
You know it's funny how people put in a bid, and then someone comes in and bids, bids, bids, and bids, until he finds out he or she is just 1 Euro from passing the lead bidder and they magically decide to stop bidding. Just like at E-bay. (LOL)
Great
Actually, it's not Mars that was depicted on the Gordian's coin. It was Virtus - the deity of bravery and military strength, the personification of the Roman virtue of virtus (manliness). Mars is depicted on other coins, with legend MARTI PACIFERO and MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM and similar.
Thats true, to an extent. Virtus was indeed one of the roman "incarnations" of their great values. But I´d say since it looks so similar to the usual depiction of mars, and since he´s on the typical pose of the MARTI PACIFERO, it gets a pass as mars :)
Where is Sol? You better start praising the sun!!! :D
Praaaaise the Suuuun!