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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2402283, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Wow, apparently 2016 is my year for scoping babe-coins!! </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Yup, here is another sweet female for my Roman collection ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I think that the coin has great eye-appeal .. it has an easy and cozy feeling about it, plus, I really love the reverse =&gt; Venus carrying the helmet never gets old, eh? </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Magnia Urbica. Augusta, Antoninianus</span></b></p><p>Ticinum mint. 5th emission of Carus, August AD 283</p><p>AD 283-285</p><p>Diameter: 21 mm</p><p>Weight: 3.45 grams</p><p>Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set on crescent</p><p>Reverse: Venus standing left, holding helmet and scepter; shield at side; SXXIT</p><p>Reference: RIC V 347; Pink VI/2, p. 29</p><p>Other: 6h … cozy brown surfaces (flan crack)</p><p>From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Justice Frederic Rockwell Sanborn Collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 24 February 1977), lot 89</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]495250[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)">dougsmit just sent me an interesting tidbit ...</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30059">&quot;Without looking, can you tell me who she was? The interesting part is that answer has changed in the time I have been collecting&quot;</span></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnia_Urbica" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnia_Urbica" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnia_Urbica</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... Doug rocks, eh?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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