Anonymous Coin #3 – CEHGG 2017 (Guess the Owner of This Coin)

Severus Alexander, he seems to collect everything and siliquae would be no exception.
Here's one of my favorite and most special coin, my tremissis of Visigothic king Sisebut (612-621 AD):

 

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Beautiful well struck coin.

 

SA! Just a hunch

 

Severus Alexander might like the coin but I am not as certain he owns it. Since a random draw should give a 20% chance of success I have about a 10% certainty on this one.
Another Julian II but Arles mint has no similarity in style whatsoever.

 

Severus Alexander , because I already mentioned zumbly twice, 3 in a row is unlikely, is it ?

Florianus , because it looks he survived a fire

 

That's a great coin VK!

 

I'm gonna go Severus Alexander- again because I don't know his interest well enough and everyone else is going with him. I am also a YN. Heres a nice Gallenius zoo coin .



Thanks,
Jacob

 

I'm going to vote for @Severus_Alexander, because that seems to be the consensus, and a perusal of posting histories does show interest in Late Romans.

Here's a broken, darkly toned Augustus, with a great nose on Lucius:

 

I vote Fitznigel because I'm good at guessing too.
And here is 1834 8 Sol from Bolivia named for "The Liberator" himself

 

I don't have a Julian but I have a Jovian, who had an even shorter reign.

I am going with Fitznigel because I see a few Roman coins in his acquisitions for this year.



Jovian,‭ ‬AD‭ ‬363-364.‭
‬Æ21,‭ ‬2.3g,‭ ‬12h‭; ‬Heraclea mint.
Obv.:‭ ‬DN IOVIANVS PF AVG‭; ‬Diademed,‭ ‬draped,‭ ‬and cuirassed bust left.‭
‬Rev.:‭ ‬VOT V,‭ ‬within wreath,‭ ‬HERA--‭ ‬in exergue.‭
‬Reference:‭ ‬RIC‭ ‬108

 

Yes, but didn’t the first round coin blurb contain the same language? That one sounded a lot like Curtisimo’s voice, too. Heck! I am going to have to carefully review each one when they are all posted. I think I will be juggling my answers around. Aarrgh!

Question: Did each “volunteer”write their own blurb? And if so, did Curtisimo edit them all?

Thank you.

 

Good question. All of the volunteers wrote their own descriptions and I only slightly edited to either word it in the first person or omit very obvious giveaways in the reasoning.

I did edit all the coin photos so that they are all presented in the same way.

 

Yeah my terrible photo skills would've been a dead give away.
You so sly,

 

The consensus seems to be Severus Alexander based on his collecting interest, which is a good enough reason for me to guess him as well.

Here is a cool bronze from Seleukos I Nikator

 

I'm thinking we get to see the next one today. Is that right, @Curtisimo?

 

That is correct SA. I will leave this open for a few more hours for anyone to enter if they wish. I will post coin number 4 in a few hours!

 

The entry period for this round is closed my friends... but not to worry. You can enter in the 4th round prize which is up and running.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/anonymous-coin-4-–-cehgg-2017-guess-the-owner-of-this-coin.306966/

 

Thank you LordM. Coin Plinko seemed like an appropriate graphic for the game

You still have time to get entered for the 4th and 5th round drawings if you have a mind to. Seems only right that you should get to participate in a giveaway for once after all the ones that you've hosted this year