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Attribution Help: Radiate, Possibly Tacitus/Clementia Temp

 
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 Posted 03/31/2023  9:59 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add paralyse to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Saw reverse and thought "Okay, looks like a CLEMENTIA TEMP" and checked Tacitus (ruled out Probus by the bust?) ...but the obverse legend is...interesting?

You can see an "x" in exergue on the left, and what looks like a reverse that would fit a CLEMENTIA TEMP. Obverse features a very "plump" radiate and cuirassed bust right, with a delightful facial expression that looks like a toddler eating half a bag of Sour Patch Kids.

My poor old man eyesight combined with seller's tiny photo?

Thoughts and/or attribution appreciated. --AB

(another job lot coin, can't help the pictures yet.)


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Quote:
but the obverse legend is...interesting?


I can make out C M CL TACITVS AVG. (The M is a bit hard to make out, though.) I guess the first three letters preceding that would be IMP?
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 Posted 03/31/2023  10:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paralyse to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Seems good to me, that would be appropriate for the coin.
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 Posted 03/31/2023  10:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's another fatty rendition. Close, but I don't think it's a die match to yours, Adam. Maybe same die engraver - who disliked Tacitus?

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Looks good to me. When it gets here, I'll get photos that are decent, and check the mark after XXI. Looks like the reverse might be double struck below the denomination (or that could also just be encrustation.)

Maybe he pressed a captured Goth into service as a die-engraver...

edit: rest of the lot:

Maximianus / Concordia Mi-litvm (a keeper, probably, great obv patina)

Maximianus / Concordia Militvm (not so much...)

Gallienus / Felici Aet (ok! keeper for sure, I like interesting Gal reverses)

Trajan Decius / Dacia (ok? pretty sure, but reverse is questionable)

Licinius II/Iovi Cons-ervatori (resoundingly "meh", unless it's an interesting mint!)

Valentinian (2/3?) / Reparatio Reipvb (Thessalonica - SMTES) - another "meh" coin, obverse is great, reverse is weak)

..and one more I don't want to post yet until I get to look at it in hand
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 Posted 03/31/2023  10:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The Fernando Botero of his day.
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 Posted 03/31/2023  11:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paralyse to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Now that's an obscure reference, had to look that one up!
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 Posted 03/31/2023  11:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah, I guess it was an esoteric art reference. Sorry.
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Oh, I love esoteric references!

Nothing like going down the Google rabbit-hole for a brief search that turns into 30 minutes of exploring Colombian artists..
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Sure looks very close. thanks maridvnvm :)
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