Your rarest emperor

Although the Kunker example is excellent, nice preservation, centering and toning, I prefer the style of the portrait on mine...I'll stay with it

Q

 

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Not to side-track anything, but what distinguishes a "provincial" from another coin?

 

It sure is a wonderful coin, it's just that considering rarity and all I didn't expect to see another one that soon

 

Provincials were local issues which circulated in restricted areas of the empire as opposed to all over as did the Imperials. I have a page that might help:
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gi.html

 

Thank you so much. I was thinking that they were just roman coins struck at provincial mints.

 

Not a denarius, but it will work for me.

Doug H.

 

A Gordy-I Rookie card!! (sweet eagle => I'm very jealous of that awesome Alexandrian)

 

And so am I

Q

 

Not my rarest coin but rarest emperor for me, i think.

Macrinus / Diadumenian


Macrinus, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D., Antioch, Syria

Bronze provincial as, McAlee 736; Hunter III, 243 - 244; BMC Galatia p. 200, 403 ff. var (busts); SNG Cop 234 var (same), aF, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 2.175g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, die axis 180o, obverse AYT KAI M O CE MAKPINOC CE, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Macrinus, from the front; reverse KAI M O ∆IA ANTΩNEINOC, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Diadumenian, seen from the front, S - C flanking across field; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; very rare bust variant;

 

Not a rare emperor, but a hard one to find on his own.

 

Oh Vabalathus as Augustus! Nice. I just have the common Aurelian with Vabalathus reverse, and I call it a Vabalathus anyway.

What I really need is a coin of his mum, Zenobia!

 

A Avitus minimi

 

Post it! (please )

 

Some empresses that are hard to come by in imperial issues but obtainable in provincials:

Annia Faustina:



Cornelia Supera:



Plotina:



Tranquillina:

 

Wow, Roman Collector => those are very sweet chick-coins (congrats)

=> gawd, I love the Cornelia Supera reverse!! (super cool)

 

Awesome coins! I'm so jelly. Oh well, I have Uranius.