Ancients => Magnia Urbica => yup, another chick-chick-chick!!

ahaha, Smeag => well, I still had another $50 on-deck, but I'm glad that I didn't need to spend it trying to beat you, my friend!!

 

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Money is tight right now. When i come back from my next trip (to the Central Asian countries ending in "stan"), I'll be able to bid for the rare guys and girls that I'm missing. The Gordians I&II are high on that list.

 

For what it is worth, these are to scale but they fail to allow for thickness (Probus is thicker than Diocletian) or alloy. The Severus Alexander is toned more than average while the Gordian III is freshly cleaned. I'm not sure this adds anything to the general good but I learned some things making it so not all is lost.

 

This is great! Inflation in motion! Thanks.

 

Wow Mentor => that's awesome ... great presentation skills

 

Here are a couple of my Urbicas...

Magnia Urbica, Antoninianus

Obv:– MAGN VRBICA AVG, Draped bust right on crescent, hair brushed in straight lines, plait carried up the back to top of head and running under stephane
Rev:– VENVS V-I_CTRIX, Venus standing left, holding helmet and scepter, shield at her feet
Minted in Rome (//KAS). A.D. 283-285
Reference:– RIC V Pt 2 343. Cohen 17



Magnia Urbica

Obv:– MAGNIA VRBICA AVG, Draped bust right on crescent, hair brushed in straight lines, plait carried up the back to top of head and running under stephane
Rev:– VENVS GENETRIX, Venus standing facing, head left, apple upward in right hand, vertical scepter in left
Minted in Lugdunum (A in left field).
RIC V pt. 2, 337 var (not listed from this officina). Bastien -, Bastien Supplement -, Bastien Supplement II 613α (2 examples cited)
23mm, 3.16g

 

Exceptional examples Martin!! Just beautiful, especially the second struck at Lugdunum.

 

Not too shabby, Martin => thanks for posting those two beauties (they're both gorgeous)

Wow, who buys "2" examples of that rare chick?! (you have coin-skills, my friend) ... bravo

 

Hmmm? => here are two of the last three coins that I've purchased ...




... apparently there is a pattern forming, eh?!

 

Great OP coin! She's a hard chick to get, quite scarce.

 

What makes you think I stopped at 2?

Magnia Urbica

Obv:– MAGNIA VRBICA AVG, Draped bust right on crescent, hair brushed in straight lines, plait carried up the back to top of head and running under stephane
Rev:– VENVS GENETRIX, Venus standing facing, head left, apple upward in right hand, vertical scepter in left
Minted in Lugdunum (D in left field).
RIC V pt. 2, 337. Bastien 617

 

=> man, I should have known ... you seem to collect in "bunches" (Sep-Sev, Probus, L-Papius and Mag-Urb apparently, eh?)

... keep-up the good work!!

 

Steve, perhaps it is time for a common Domna???


or a rare Septimius?


...or a die linked pair which I have not seen again:


There are many Venus coins out there.

 

Nice => man, I love those sweet butt-shots, but I think I'm even a bigger fan of the fact that Venus is carrying a "helmet" on my two coins (there's just something cool about those neat helmets)

... butt you're correct => you can't have too many butt-shot-coins, eh? (thanks for the hint)



=> great coins!! (thanks for posting 'em)

 

Yah, I shoulda known that Buttman would show-up!!

 

Great coin, shes on my list but near the bottom.

 

(Ouch!!)

 

What this composite demonstrates is the relative stability of the Alexandrian economy. Yes, the coins get smaller and less fine, but they do so gradually, over the course of three centuries. That's really quite astonishing compared to the often rampant inflation in the Empire proper, that saw the blowing up and bursting of economic bubbles (and consequent monetary reforms) sometimes over the span of mere decades.

 

I never understood the helmet unless she was pining for Mars her lover. The apple of love makes more sense but I suspect the original statur from which the typ was copied used the helmet as did Titus on this fourree. A solid coin of this type would be a worthwhile addition.
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