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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2257859, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">NOTE =&gt; this is merely an on-going annual chore of mine (please don&#039;t feel like you need to post your purchases) ... but here are my 3rd-Quarter-2015 updates (I&#039;m up to 45 coins YTD)</span></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>40 - July 24th</b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">VICTORINUS SILVERED AE ANTONINIANUS</span></b></p><p>Colonia Agrippina (Köln) mint</p><p>Second half A.D. 269</p><p>Diameter: 15 mm</p><p>Weight: 3.3 grams</p><p>Obverse: IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Reverse: INVICTVS. Sol running left, holding whip, right hand raised, chlamys in two folds. Star in left field.</p><p>Reference:&nbsp; RIC V-2 114</p><p>Other: conserving full details in both sides, including a precious portrait of this galo-romanic emperor, very strong relief and a delicious brown patina with remainings of the original silvering</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]447880[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>41 - July 31st</b></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine, Antoine the Good</b></span></p><p>AR Demi-plaque</p><p>Nancy mint</p><p>1508-1544 AD</p><p>Diameter:&nbsp; 22 mm</p><p>Weight: 1.59 grams</p><p>Obverse: + ΛnThOn : ∂ : G : CΛLΛBЧ : LOThOЧ : ЄT : BΛЧ : ∂ (double saltire stops), crowned ducal coat-of-arms</p><p>Reverse: + mOnЄTΛ : nOVΛ : FΛCTΛ : In : nΛnCЄIO : (double saltire stops), <b>armored arm, wielding sword, emerging from clouds</b></p><p>Reference: De Saulcy pl. XIV, 13; Roberts 9491; Boudeau 1507</p><p>Other: darkly toned</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]447881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>42 - August 12th</b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Philip II. As Caesar, Æ Sestertius</span></b></p><p>244-247 AD</p><p>Rome mint, 3rd officina. 4th emission of Philip I, AD 245</p><p>Diameter: 30.5 mm</p><p>Weight: 20.36 grams</p><p>Obverse: Bareheaded and draped bust right</p><p>Reverse: Philip II standing right, holding spear and globe</p><p>Reference: RIC IV 255a; Banti 10</p><p>Other: 2h )... dark gray and brown patina, areas of light roughness, hairline flan crack</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]447883[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>43 - September 30th</b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">LOCAL ISSUES, Sogdiana. Samarkand (Pre-Ikhshid). AR Obol</span> </b></p><p>4th-5th centuries AD</p><p>Diameter: 11 mm</p><p>Weight: 0.42 grams</p><p>Obverse: Bearded male head left; [Sogdian legend around]</p><p>Reverse: Schematic soldier standing facing, hand on hip and holding bow</p><p>Reference: Cf. Senior A8.6i (for type); cf. Zeno 110045 (same)</p><p>Other: 12 h ... nicely toned</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]447884[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>44 - September 30th</b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">AEOLIS, Gryneion. Æ11</span></b></p><p>4th century BC</p><p>Diameter: 11 mm</p><p>Weight: 1.63 grams</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly left</p><p>Reverse: Mussel</p><p>Reference: SNG Ashmolean 1447–8; SNG Copenhagen 205–6</p><p>Other: 2h ... black patina, a few deposits. Rare</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]447885[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>45 - October 9th</b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">ISLANDS OFF CARIA, RHODOS, Æ DRACHM</span></b></p><p>Circa 31 BC-60 AD</p><p>Diameter: 35 mm</p><p>Weight: 21.87 grams</p><p>Obverse: Radiate head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath</p><p>Reberse: Nike standing right on prow, holding aplustre and wreath</p><p>Reference: Ashton, &#039;Rhodian coinage in the imperial period,&#039; Recent Turkish Coin Hoards and Numismatic Studies, 110-112. N.</p><p>Other: R. S. Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]447886[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">... man, this budget thingy has really been slowing me down, eh?!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; only &quot;1&quot; animal-coin during the past 3 months!! (a fricken mussel)</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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