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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7849974, member: 85693&quot;]Alas, poor Ovid.&nbsp; Poetry is indeed a dangerous occupation; if the politicians don&#039;t get you (Augustus, Stalin), then there&#039;s this: &quot;We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.&quot;&nbsp; (William Wordsworth)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two from Tomis:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1351761[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp; Æ 20</b></p><p><b>n.d. (138-161 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Moesia Inferior, Tomis</b></p><p>[ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Α]ΔΡΙ ΑΝ[ΤωΝΙΝΟϹ] bare head right / [ΤΟΜΙ]ΤωΝ Η <u>ΜΗ</u>ΤΡΟΠΟΛ[ΙϹ], Asklepios standing facing, head left, holding patera (?) and (leaning on) serpent-entwined staff.</p><p>(4.52 grams / 20 mm)</p><p>eBay Oct. 2020</p><p><b>Attribution Notes:&nbsp; </b>Bare head obverse.&nbsp; Reverse legend is partially ligate (<u>MH</u>; though <u>NH </u>is also ligate in some examples). Not sure if this one has patera.</p><p>Asklepios described as &quot;holding&quot; staff, but he is leaning on it.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>RPC IV 4385 (temporary); Varbanov 4693; AMNG 2619; Moushmov 1819 (without patera)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1351760[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Gordian III &amp; Tranquillina&nbsp; Æ 4-1/2 Assaria (?)</b></p><p><b>(c. 241-244 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Moesia Inferior, Tomis</b></p><p>ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ [ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ·C]Є ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ ΛЄΙΝΑ, two busts / ΜΕ[ΤΡΟ ΠΟΝΤ]ΟV ΤΟΜ]ΕΩC, Homonoia standing holding patera and cornucopiae; [Δ&lt; (ligate) in left field?].</p><p>(12.75 grams / 27 mm)</p><p>eBay May 2020</p><p><b>Attribution Notes: </b></p><p>This one seems to be missing value mark in reverse field, though these are known to have been removed sometimes.</p><p>From &quot;Roman Collector&quot; post on Coin Talk:</p><p>AMNG I 3545; Varbanov 5693; Moushmov 2276; SNG Cop --; BMC --; Lindgren --; Sear --.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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