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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5148914, member: 110350&quot;]Wow. I&#039;m too busy to read much of anything for a few days and I feel like I&#039;m already 50 threads behind!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have three relevant coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus AR Denarius 217 AD, Obv. Laureate head right, IMP C M OPEL MACRINVS AVG&nbsp;&nbsp; / Rev. Securitas standing, facing, leaning on a column, head left, holding a scepter, PONTIF MAX TR P COS PP. RIC IV-2 24, RSC III 62, Sear RCV II 7347. 19 mm., 1.58 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess this one counts as a short beard, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1208312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus and Diadumenian Caesar, AE Pentassarion [5 Assaria], 217-218 AD, Marcianopolis Mint, Moesia Inferior (Pontianus, consular legate). Obv. Confronted heads of Macrinus, laureate, right, and Diadumenian, bareheaded, left, [AVT K OΠE]Λ CEV MAKPEINOC K M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC [<i>bracketed portion off flan</i>][ = <i>Imperator, Caesar, Opellius Augustus Macrinus, Caesar Marcus Opellius Antoninus </i>] / Rev. Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in extended right hand and caduceus in left hand; chlamys hanging over left arm; E [mark of value for “5”] in right field, VΠ Macrinus ΠONTIANOV MAP-KIANOΠOΛEITΩN (ΩN ligate) [ = <i>Consular Legate Pontianus, (coin) of the people of Markianopolis</i>].&nbsp; AMNG I/I 740 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I</i>&nbsp; (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 240-241]; BMC 3 Thrace 35 [R.S. Poole, ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. </i>(London, 1877) at p. 32]; Hristova &amp; Jekov 6.24.10.3 [Nina Hristova &amp; Gospodin Jekov, <i>The Local Coinage of the Roman Empire - Moesia Inferior, I - III c. A.D., MARCIANOPOLIS </i> (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 2006)]; Varbanov (Eng.) Vol. I, 1192 <i>var</i>. (E to left) [Ivan Varbanov, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume I: Dacia, Moesia Superior &amp; Moesia Inferior</i> (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2005)]; Diadumenian.com /marcianopolis5.html, No. Mar5.33d.&nbsp; 25 mm, 12.89 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex: Dr. Paul Rynearson (ca. 2003)</i>; <i>Ex: Kirk Davis, Cat # 75, Fall 2020, Lot 62. </i>(Coin is double die match to Lot 696, CNG Triton XII Auction, Jan. 5, 2009.)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1208313[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diadumenian Caesar, AE Tetrassarion (4 Assaria), 218 AD (May-8 June), Nicopolis ad Istrum [Nikyup, Bulgaria] Mint, Moesia Inferior, Statius Longinus, Consular Legate. Obv. Bareheaded bust of Diadumenian right, draped and armored, seen from behind, M OPEL DIADOV-MENIANOC K (OV ligate) [ = <i>Marcus Opellius Diadumenianus, Caesar</i>] / Rev. Artemis, wearing short chiton, walking right, holding bow in left hand and drawing arrow from quiver in right hand, hound jumping behind her left foot, VΠ CTA ΛONΓINOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOC I / CTPΩ in exergue [ =&nbsp; <i>Consular legate Longinus, (Governor) of the residents of Nikopolis on the (river) Istros</i>].&nbsp; AMNG I/I 1843 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I</i>&nbsp; (Berlin, 1898) at p. 467]; Varbanov I 3743 [Varbanov, Ivan, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume I: Dacia, Moesia Superior &amp; Moesia Inferior</i> (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2005) at p. 308]; Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov 8.25.13.3 [Hristova, H., H.-J. Hoeft, &amp; G. Jekov. <i>The Coins of Moesia Inferior 1st - 3rd c. AD: Nicopolis ad Istrum</i> (Blagoevgrad, 2015)].</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1208314[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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