Ancients => Pomegranates & Countermarks

Yes E=5 and they can be lunate like yours, squared or even backwards.

Caracalla/Domna Marcianopolis 5 assaria

 

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I was unfamiliar with the terminology-- this Macrinus & Diadumenian from Marcianopolis must also be a 5 assaria.

 

Nice coins everyone.

MACRINUS Pentassarion AE28
OBVERSE: AVT K OPEL CEVH MAKREINOC K M OPEL ANTWNEINOC - confronted busts
REVERSE: VP PONTIAN-OV MARKIANO/ POLIT, Coiled serpent with radiate head
Struck at Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, Magistrate Pontianus; 217 - 218 AD
12.6g, 28mm
Hr & J (2012) 6.24.22.6

 

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS AE17 Assarion
OBVERSE: AV K L CEVHPOC, laureate bust right
REVERSE: NIKOPOL PROC IC, Draped bust of Serapis in modius, facing right
Struck at Nikopolis ad Istrum, 193-211 AD
2.6g, 15mm
Moushmov 927

 

DIADUMENIAN Assarion
OBVERSE: M OPELLIOC ANTWNEINOC, bare-headed, draped bust right
REVERSE: MARKIANOPOLEI-TWN, Lion walking left
Struck at Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, 218 AD
2.9g, 17mm
Moushmov 629

 

DIADUMENIAN Assarion
OBVERSE: M OPPLLIOC ANTWNEINO/C
Bare headed and draped bust right – seen from behind
REVERSE: MARKIANO-POLEITWN
Aesklepios staff, with serpent entwining
Struck at Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, 218 AD
3.07, 17mm
Varbanov 1354

 

There are many we see called 4 and 5 assaria that are not marked and I am not clear on how you separate the two. Ones (unmarked) are common but 2's and 3's less so.

 

Geesh => I almost forgot about this poor lil' darling (pentassarion)

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis.
Philip II. As Caesar Æ Pentassarion
AD 244-247
Diameter: 27 mm
Weight: 13.73 grams
Obverse: Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip II right, facing draped bust of Serapis left, wearing calathus
Reverse: Serpent coiled left; E (mark of value) to right
Reference: H&J 6.44.22.2; Varbanov 2100
Other: 2h ... green-brown patina

 

Since the thread title is Pomegranates & Countermarks, here's a tetradrachm from Side, Pamphylia. There's a pomegranate on the reverse. Centering is a bit off and it has some issues but it was one of my earliest non-uncleaned purchases and I like it very much. I should re-shoot it with better lighting.

 

No assarion/assaria here but I can provide you with a pomegranate :


Jeton, bronze - 1635
Atelier de Trévoux
(rose) ABSENTIS LVCE REFVLGENT Paysage de campagne sous un ciel etoilé ("Elles rayonnent d'une lumière éloignée").
* TOT SEDES VNICA FIRMAT * Une grenade couronnée entre deux branches de laurier ("Une seule couronne affermit tant de trônes"). A l'exergue : * 1635 *.
6.68 gr
Ref : F.10869

Q

 

nice looking coins!