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Great job Med. Show us what you got (hopefully not Nonorius)
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This one should be nice and easy (at least for some):


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 Posted 01/21/2015  8:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not for me.
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Not for me.

Agreed. Back to reading about the First Punic War.
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ordes ii? is it from elymais?
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ordes ii? is it from elymais?


Yes, it is from Elymias (or Elam) - with the controversies around the numbering of the rulers, I'll give it to you. I have it down as:


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AE Drachm from Orodes I (early 2nd century AD) - Sear(GIC)#5892

Obverse: Profile bust left, wearing tiara, trident and crescent at right
Reverse: [Y]RWD[ES] to left of bust of Artemis right, to the right [B]ASLE[VS]
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With my bad eyesight I can just barely make out the bust. Mithradates II?
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I'm currently try to attribute a coin form elymais, and it isn't easy. i'll post it here soon..I'm not sure I'm correct.


this is from an ugly coin I payed to much for.

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Not sure which period it belongs to, could even be one of the dreaded LRBs. But I try my luck first in the first century:

Vitellius?
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I think you nailed it with Caracalla , Echizento .
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Dreaded LRB'S Med. Really ?
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ski has it!

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caracalla
198-217 ad
rome mint
ric 538

reverse shows aesclepius

30 mm
91.g
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Give this one a shot.


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Looks more like a Mongol warrior, but I assume it's Byzantine, so

Justinian I?

Oops - you changed the picture, back to the drawing board.
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