big budget bronzes

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Awesome finale coin, chrsmat71 ... nice haul!!

=> I'm absolutely lovin' the Pegasus in exergue (good eye!!)

 

.....stupid wagon indeed

you beat me to it!

 

i was on the wagon a whole week before i cracked, this is a christmas present i got myself, but it's still a big budget bronze, so i'll post it here with the rest.





caracalla
198-217 ad
marcianopolis (modern devnya bulgaria...as an aside, i thought this city was named after the byzantine emperor marcian later, but it was named after trajans sister..didn't know that.)
pentassaria

o: caracalla and his mom julia domna;
ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟC ΑΥΓΟΥCΤΟC ΙΟςΛΙΑ, ∆ΟΜΝΑ (antonius augustus julia domna)

r: tyche holding rudder and cornucopia, E in left field,
ΥΠ ΚΥΝΤΙΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ (what's this say? something about macrianoplis)

30 mm
17.4 g

this coin has a has nice details and a good legend, and a nasty relatively recent scratch on the obverse. maybe give a glimpse of what color the coin was the day it was minted? anyway, the scratch probably dropped the coin into the price range i could afford, and i was wanting a double busted bronze...so now part of the chrsmat71 collection.

 

Awesome addition. I didn't get any Ancient Christmas presents for myself. Only modern coins for me this Christmas

 

I guess I was a bad little boy. All I got was coal.

 

Chris awesome coin, great color, love these big pond skippers, Merry Christmas to you..

 

jw, in a couple 100,000 years you could have a diamond...

 

Gee, I'll try to keep that in mind while I ponder the empty stocking hung so carefully by the fire. OH CRAP!! Now the stocking caught fire. Man-o-man.

 

Ha-Ha-Ha .....

=> Ooops, I mean Ho-Ho-Ho!!

 

Bit*chin looking coin, congrats.

 

Neither did I, but I tried (Stupid bidders, that's my coin!).