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Hello! I have these two coins which I am stuck as to what they are. One I bought a while back and one only a few hours ago. The first one was bought from a German seller for £3(Bobbyhelmet may remember the guy who I bought the silver denari from  ), He had it listed as a dupondius of Phillip I and Otacilia(244-249AD) from Marcianopolis However in my opinion I think it seems to resemble a coin of Gordian and Tranquilina instead. Is anyone able to shed a bit of light on this?(I've given a second picture a quick tracing in red to highlight detail seen in hand.)   My second coin was an impulse buy, I haven't a clue what it is I just really liked the design and patina. I paid £17 for it so I'm still unsure whether it was worth it or not  I don't have it in hand yet so I am only able to provide the ebay pics. Here they are:  Any help is gratefully appreciated  Edited by Coinage123
01/25/2013 4:10 pm
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Could the bottom coin possibly be some sort off early roman provincial from Spain?
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Pillar of the Community
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#1 is Gordian III and Tranquillina. My city guess is Anchialus, Thrace, since I see a AlambdaEomegaN at the reverse far right and this city issued a lot of twin portrait types. I don't know enough about first century to help with #2 but style looks Julio-Claudian to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Is it my imagination or does the obverse read augustus ? octavia counter clockwise
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree the second coin looks Julio-Claudian. In fact, when I first saw it I thought it must be Claudius or Caligula. However, while researching, the closest I could come to this coin was a Tiberius and it's not exact. The bust style is definitely early first century.
The first coin looks very similar to a Gordian II and Tranquillina from Anchialus I just purchased (I will be posting it soon), but once again it's not exact. I do believe you're on the right track. The reverse figure could be Sarapis or Roma.
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Thanks for the responses. Doucet, from the link you provided I'm now pretty sure it is a Tiberius dupondius minted in Italica, same as the one below(The forehead sets it out from the rest.):  http://www.acsearch.info/search.htm...=&c=&a=&l=#3(Fourth one down.) I guess it wasn't too bad for £17 then Thank you Bing and Doug for confirming my thoughts on it being a Gordian/Traquillina coin rather than Philip/Otacilia Severa. I have now got a description of it to put in my coin catalogue |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes, I think you got it. Good job!
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Pillar of the Community
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i really like that second coin!
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