Dolphin of Deultum

My Deultum offering is Orpheus as used by Tranquillina but the coin has a feature that I really like. Deultum as a full Colony was entitled to use Latin legends. This one reads SAB TRANQILLINA SEB. Latin would have been AVG but the cutter just transliterated the Greek title CEB into Latin rather than using the Latin word. Since the empress' name was Sabrinia and the legend starts with SAB, I wonder if the Sab-Seb similarity had anything to do with the error. I need a coin of this series with the correct AVG legend.

Because mine is a larger AE23 denomination C F P D was expanded to COL FL PAC DEVLT.

 

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Interesting variation in the lettering. I agree that SAB-SEB may have had something to do with it. I have a coin (from a consignor) with an equally interesting minor variation, in which the typical AVG is spelled AVΓ. I'm not sure whether this was the norm for Nicaea or not...



Here's another pic of Butterball...

 

Someone needs to take the tunas away from Butterball and put him on a seaweed diet.

 

Wonderful coins!!! I wish I had one!

 

isn't there an antoninus pius with a sailboat on obv and dolphin?

 

Yes, but it's one of the anonymous quadrantes issued from Vespasian to Antoninus Pius. Extremely rare, very expensive, and unfortunately not mine...

 

I have but two:


Diadumenian
Region, City: Thrace, Deultum
Coin: Bronze
- Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right
Cupid - Cupid riding on dolphin right
Mint: (217-218 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 2.19g / 18mm / -
References:

• Deultum Moushmov 3568A

Macrinus
Coin: Bronze
IMP C M OPE SEV MACRINVS PI - Radiate head right – seen from behind
COL F L PAC DEVLT - Priest veiled, driving two oxen
Mint: Deultum (217-218 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 9.25g / 23mm / -
Acquisition/Sale: $0.00
Notes: Aug 4, 13 - This act was part of the city founding ceremony. Reverse die match with Moushmov Plate XXII (3)

 

I am so excited to be welcoming this into my collection. It was calling to me from the moment I saw it. The dolphin is just so adorable with his whale-like body.

This is my first Roman provincial. I do have a Constantius II minted in Constantinople, but it's not the same as by that time it was the capital of the Empire.

 

Ask and ye shall receive.

 

Sallent, I fear you are a lost cause

 

Uhm...this is my last one...really! Somehow I feel like I've said that already.

 

Yeah, right! That's how a junky sounds.

 

As someone famous once said...let he who is without sin cast the first stone.