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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Had to look long and hard to find anything for this smackdown, only just occurred to me how few coins show the ancients architecture.  Constantine Campgate. Probus ROMAE AETER - Roma seated in temple, holding Victory and spear. |
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New Member
United States
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 First Posting. Sauromates I, 93-123 AD. Kingdom of the Bosporus (in the Crimea at the north side of the Black Sea) 24 mm. 6.285 grams. Rare. Fortress wall gate (city gate) with captive kneeling to right, tree branches above MH = 48, the denomination, below. Frolova XII.16, the same coin as Anokhin 461 (which are much worse than this excellent piece). MacDonald 400/2 (which he omitted to note is bust right, not bust left like the previous coin) |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
549 Posts |
A wonderful coin type. Now show us the other side too.
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New Member
United States
8 Posts |
 Here is the obverse with a good bust of Sauromates. |
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Moderator
 United States
23731 Posts |
 to the community Hatra, Interesting coin type. I haven't come across any of this type before. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3229 Posts |
Claudius / Alter   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3229 Posts |
Hatra:) Nice coin  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2838 Posts |
to the forum Hatra. A little seen coin, yours is a very nice example. Great to see a new poster here - 6pts bonus to you Had to do a bit of Googling to read up about it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
549 Posts |
Entries are closing later today. Do you have one more coin to show us?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
549 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
549 Posts |
My votes:
Hatra Sauromates/city gate and captive GOLD
Ancientnoob Sasanian fire altar SILVER
Eddop Carinus quinarius BRONZE
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1st..Gold..jw's Augustus Provident...awesome...  2nd..Silver..Dvc..Campgate...very cool... 3rd..Bronze..Hatra...Sauromates..nice to see a new coin.. Very nice coin's all around....  |
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Pillar of the Community
3352 Posts |
Hats-off to anybody that actually managed to find something architectural, other than a pile of rocks!!
Gold => Bing's Coin #1 (Foody Goody Chinese Restaurant)
Silver => maridvnvm's Coin #2 (cool patina eye-appeal)
Bronze => bobbyhelmet's Coin #1 (Glitz-Campgate)
NOTE: honorable mention goes to chrsmat71's oven-baked and home-cleaned examples (he should receive degree of difficulty points!!)
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2100 Posts |
And the votes from the Welsh jury are as follows:-
Gold - Hatra - Sauromates - An interesting type that I haven't seen before
Silver - Eddop - Carinus quinarius - not something you see every day
Bronze - DVCollector - Campgate - a really nice example of the type
Martin
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
Unfortunately I did not have anything to enter this one, not even a pile of rocks  My votes... GOLD - Martin... Probus ant SILVER - Hatra... Sauromates I BRONZE - DVCollector... Constantius II campgate |
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