I think it is a Gamma with a the whole Y shaped blob being a die break.
Style is right. Surfaces are good. A lovely coin.
Absolutely typical Alexandrian. A nice one too.
I have a few.... Tacitus Antoninianus Obv:– IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:– VIRTV-S AVG, Mars standing...
As you are aware I have a passing interest in FTR. I have now acquired a few of the smaller AE3 size (around 18mm) FTR from Antioch. All are quite...
I try not to buy random Probus coins. I did that few years and ended up with far too many of them and never enough money left for other coins. I...
Since posting this thread I have obtained one of the gaps and have a common enough RIC 149b to illustrate. Follis Obv:–IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P...
Looks like Spes on the reverse. Spes walking left, holding flower & raising robe
Nice. I did have one but parted with it a few years back. [IMG]
Some time on and I have stumbled across the Max. Herc. to match my OP. Maximianus Herculius Follis Obv:– D N MAXIMIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG,...
My most recent Philip. I'm a sucker for Adventus coins. Philip I Antoninianus Obv:– IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, Radiate, draped & cuirassed bust...
I was attracted to this coin by the portrait style and bought it withough having done any research on it. It turns out to be quite rare and hold...
That Antioch is sweet.
Ahhh but whose dating takes prescedence? There are many contradictory dating schemes in place for so many periods proposed by many different...
Some early issue Ants. also copied the more hirsute portraits of previous emperor. Here he looks like Probus. [IMG] sometimes he kept it under...
I have Galerius too Galerius Billon tetradrachm Obv:– GAL MAXIMIANOC K, Laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev:– None, Eirene, standing left,...
Maximian, Billon tetradrachm Obv:– MAΞIMIANOC CEB, Laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev:– None, Nike, advancing right holding wreath and palm. Star...
I have a couple of Gallienus from the series too. Gallienus Obv:- GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right Rev:- DIANAE CONS AVG, gazelle walking...
Salonina Obv:- CORN SALONINA AVG, diademed draped bust right on crescent Rev:- IVNONI CONS AVG, Bearded elk walking right Minted in Rome (Delta...
This early Nicomedia seems to show a buckler rather than a shield. Constantius II - AE2 Obv:- D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, pearl diademed, draped...
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