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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4592319, member: 96898"]A beautiful green-ish horse, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! Mine is a chestnut and much smaller as well as older:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137103[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Troas, Alexandria, AE10, ca. 3rd–2nd c. BC. Obv: laureate head of Apollo l. Rev: horse grazing l.; AΛE above; control mark (grain of wheatß) between horse’s leg; thunderbolt in exergue (off flan). 10mm, 0.77g. Ref: SNG Copenhagen 81–82; BMC 8–9.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is a Roman provincial from Alexandria – it is ugly but rare:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137104[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Alexandria Troas, Roman Empire, civic issue, AE22, ca. 251–260. Obv: CO ALE[X TRO], turreted, draped, cuirassed bust of Tyche right, behind her, vexillum inscribed CO AV. Rev: [CO]L AV[G] TR[OAD], statue of Apollo Smintheus standing on short column facing, holding patera over lighted tripod left and bow, tree (?) right. 22mm, 4.41g. Ref: Bellinger –, SNG Copenhagen –, SNG von Aulock –, BMC –, RPC IX, 492 (this is the third example known, all from the same pair of dies).</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4592319, member: 96898"]A beautiful green-ish horse, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! Mine is a chestnut and much smaller as well as older: [ATTACH=full]1137103[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Troas, Alexandria, AE10, ca. 3rd–2nd c. BC. Obv: laureate head of Apollo l. Rev: horse grazing l.; AΛE above; control mark (grain of wheatß) between horse’s leg; thunderbolt in exergue (off flan). 10mm, 0.77g. Ref: SNG Copenhagen 81–82; BMC 8–9.[/SIZE] And here is a Roman provincial from Alexandria – it is ugly but rare: [ATTACH=full]1137104[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Alexandria Troas, Roman Empire, civic issue, AE22, ca. 251–260. Obv: CO ALE[X TRO], turreted, draped, cuirassed bust of Tyche right, behind her, vexillum inscribed CO AV. Rev: [CO]L AV[G] TR[OAD], statue of Apollo Smintheus standing on short column facing, holding patera over lighted tripod left and bow, tree (?) right. 22mm, 4.41g. Ref: Bellinger –, SNG Copenhagen –, SNG von Aulock –, BMC –, RPC IX, 492 (this is the third example known, all from the same pair of dies).[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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