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Valued Member
Canada
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Can someone give me a description of this coin. Also, I would be selling it on ebay (I don't have enough posts top sell it on CCF), so honest opinions on what I can reasonably expect.   |
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Moderator
 United States
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It is a provincial coin, I believe the image is Septimius Severus but I'm not 100% sure.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This coin has a nice portrait.  I could not find a match to the reverse. How big is it? |
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Valued Member
 Canada
155 Posts |
It has a diameter of 21 mm.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
Canada
155 Posts |
It looks pretty close to me. Would it be Septimus severus?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
JW, interesting! If I look at it just right, I can see Cybele seated too. Too bad the emperor's name is off the flan. The reverse inscription might be an easy ID for someone...I haven't found a match yet.
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
The reverse looks similar, it's possible.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4253 Posts |
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Would it be Septimus severus? If I am correct (and that's a huge "if") it would be Pertinax and more rare and valuable than most Sep. Severus. |
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New Member
United States
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The portrait seems to resemble Aelius (136-138AD). I'll try to do more research. Someone will probably come up with something definitive. Interesting coin.
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
I've been trying to figure out the few letters on the reverse but I'm stumped so far.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1315 Posts |
Stumped here as well.
Nothing in S.Icard like those rev. letters.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1549 Posts |
The obverse is pretty clear where it says lambda AVP. Before that is AYK or autokrator which is a common title used by most. Neither Pertinax nor Septimius were Lucius Aurelius but this tip should help someone figure out which guys were and limit your searching to them. It sure would be nice to have the next letters on the right where the name that would make it certain used to be.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
Canada
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Thanks everyone. I appreciate the investigative skills in trying to sort this one out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1315 Posts |
Could this possible be a "nome" coin of Alexandria?
Trajan, Hadrian or Antonius Pius? Possible Memphites? MEMΊE......
I believe I see an M in the left side faint inscription. But for this theory to hold true, the C in the reverse legend that is visible after the PHI character would actually have to be an E.
I don't know much about nome coins but the designers may have also altered Greek letters a bit to fit their purposes. Also the portrait style is similar to some nomes.
So far I can't find a lot of images for these nome types.
Anyway it's just a guess.
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Posted 03/14/2012 3:14 pm
