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  1. ancient times

    ancient times Legatus Legionis

    Trajan, AE27. 13.5grams. Antioch, AYTOK? KAIC NE? T?AIANOC CEB GE?M ?AK, laureate head right / large SC, year mark ? below, all within laurel wreath composed of eight sets of leaves. McAlee 487
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  3. Ocatarinetabellatchitchix

    Ocatarinetabellatchitchix Well-Known Member

    Nice coin my friend. But can you post bigger pictures cause my poor old eyes are bleeding now...
     
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  4. ancient times

    ancient times Legatus Legionis

    Sorry, I thought people could click on the pictures and make them bigger, I will start posting them full size, thanks for the reply
     
  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Full size, please, @ancient times .

    Nice Trajan.

    Here is one of my favorites:

    Riding horse...
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    RI Trajan AR Denarius 98-117 Riding Horse


    Oops, he must had fallen off his camel...
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    RI Trajan CE 98-117 AR drachm Struck CE 114-116 Arabia Petraea Bostra - Camel SNG ANS 1158
     
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  6. ancient times

    ancient times Legatus Legionis

    Nice, I really like the camel one!
     
  7. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    ..i can :)..nice one!...i have a Nerva from the place for 'the good'emperors in bronze..i always thought Antioch made purdy coins Nerva Antioch bronze 001.JPG Nerva Antioch bronze 005.JPG
     
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  8. Terence Cheesman

    Terence Cheesman Well-Known Member

    trajans18.jpg Some of my favorite Roman coins are sestertii of Trajan. RIC 642 Woytek 590v3 Obv. Bust of Trajan right laureate and draped Rv. Emperor standing right flanked by the personifications of Mesopotania to left and the Tigris and Euphrates to right 116-117 A.D. 28.37 grms 34mm
     
  9. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Lovely Antiochene issue of Trajan. Here's my only coin of his from the eastern Mediterranean, a "brass as" struck for use in Syria. It may have been struck in Antioch, but this isn't known with certainty. I like the countermark:

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    Trajan. A.D. 98-117.
    Roman orichalcum as, 8.49 g, 23.5 mm, 6 h.
    Struck in Rome for circulation in Syria (?); Struck in Antioch (?), AD 115/16.
    Obv: IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM, radiate and draped bust right; c/m: bucranium within incuse punch.
    Rev: DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI P P around laurel wreath enclosing large SC.
    Refs: RIC 647; BMCRE 1094; Cohen 123; RCV 3243; Woytek 937v; McAlee 509; Strack 479; BN 953-5. For c/m: Pangerl 63; Howgego 294.
     
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