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The history of the Roman Provinces is very interesting. Markainopolis produced some of the larger and more interesting coins. Your a very nice examples of these.
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I'm a bit curious what that coin went for on wildwind$$? I'm guessing not cheap, unpublished so rare: Quote:
Moesia, Markianopolis, 14mm, 1.6g.
Obv: Head of unknown person right, wearing taenia.
Rev: MAPKIANOPOLITWN, lion walking right.
Unpublished. AMNG - ; Hristova/Jekov -; BMC -; Lindgren -; SNG Righetti -; Sear GICV -; Moushmov -; Varbanov -; Varna museum -.
I am adding this coin under the owner's name and the Forum
Gallery number.
Reich_42933
Contributed by Andreas Reich of the Forvm Ancient Coins, Sept. 2010 |
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I have three coins from Markianopolis: Macrinus and Diadumenian  And two of Diadumenian   |
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You asked. Marcianopolis is not really the best place to collect if you like animals. Nicopolis has a much better selection. Many will just be attributes or minor parts of a design staring a god or personification (e.g. Apollo holding a snake). I have a few coins of the city and will put them up here for ID or dissection by whoever cares. Most coins will be found in the 5 assaria denomination which is a bronze about the size of a dupondius. There are ones appropriately smaller. Other numbers in between are less often seen and I don't have nice ones. Remember I am a cheapskate and don't pay extra for less coin all that often. IMHO the biggest numismatic feat of Marcianopolis is its being the find spot of one of the largest and most informative hoards of Roman silver. Called the Reka Devnia hoard, this treasure chest of 81000 denarii serves as a great guide to rarity of denarii from the Flavians through the Severans. You will see coins listed as RD followed by a number indicating how many coins of that type were in the hoard. Common coins have 200 while a 1 or not being listed is generally a sign that a coin is rare. The hoard suffered some sticky fingered handling before it was published almost certainly (resulting in some rarities being missing more than appropriate - there are no coins of Pescennius Niger, for example). Coin dealer Barry Murphy privately published a copy of the original hoard report so guys like me could afford what had been a very expensive book but I believe his reprints are out of print now. And now ---- the coins:  Eagle - Septimius Severus  Snake - Diadumenian and Macrinus  Castor? and horse - Gordian III  Cybele with two lions - Gordian III Edited by dougsmit
12/13/2012 7:31 pm
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"Diadumenian" eh? ...
=> well played, you Wiley ol' dog!! ... well played
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 ... arrrgghhh, nice coins, dougsmit!! ... but man, those are incredibly small Lions, or Cybele stood about twenty feet tall!!? (or approximately six meters tall, for the rest of the planet)  Edited by stevex6
12/13/2012 7:37 pm
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There's a pdf of the Reka Devnia report freely available at FAC (wich is currently down) |
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I have only one. Caracalla, Cybele reverse.  |
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Nice coins guys! dougsmit, I recognize that first one. I saw it on Wild Winds. I might as well post my coin of Macrinus and Diadumenian. Like I said, it is an ugly one!  I need a replacement  I bought it a while back for some unknown reason. Totally overpaid for it if I recall correctly. Oh well, you live and you learn. Anyone interested?  haha |
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Marcianopolis is spelled out in Greek starting at 12:00 on the reverse. I bought this coin for several reasons-- the remarkable smooth green patina, the remarkably long obverse legend, and the fact it cost about the same as the first Macrianus and Diadumenian I had bought 20 years earlier before the wall came down. Those of you who have begun collecting in the past 15 years probably do not know that the two-headed coins of Marcianopolis and all those common coins of Nicopolis and other cities in the region used to be quite unusual. Now they are everywhere due to the flood of coins released when the wall came down and a continuing supply from the countries on the west side of the Black Sea. Before the 1990s, the West had little access to those coins.  Macrinus and Diadumenian, 217-218 28-27 mm. 11.97 grams. 6:00 Marcianopolis (Hristova and Jekov) page 108, 6.24.29.3. Magistrate Pontianus The name Macrinus begins at 1:00 and Diadumenian begins with the second-last letter of the second last horizontal line. -- Warren |
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A neat thing about the double portrait coins including the reverses is how creative they got in finding different ways to fit the legends on the flan. There is little consistency. In addition to the three line exergue on obverse, Warren's has the reverse legend around the edge but the last two letters turned over to fit in exergue. Note the end of the legend on this Gordian/Tranquillina fell in a vertical line in the right field. to fit the last two letters (omega nu) were made ligate.  |
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Sorry to ressurect this thread, but I had to post this coin. I forgot to include it earlier! Seems like I can't remember to post everything at once anymore.   Septimius Severus, 193 - 211 A.D. Obv: AV Λ CEΠTI CEVHPOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right Rev: MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, Tyche standing left wearing modius, holding rudder and cornucopia That makes 5 for me then. I have found a few more that I am going to buy soon, so I will keep you all updated!  |
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ACG, very nice, yes we have some SS lovers here, it will go over well, I see you changed your Avatar, very nice too!
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 your new avatar is very hot!! (good choice) ... oh, and nice SS-coin as well  |
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