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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2885919, member: 88829&quot;]Bing, your Severus piece is really nice.&nbsp; I debated about putting up one of those but now I&#039;m glad I held off because your&#039;s is nicer.&nbsp; Nonetheless, let me follow it up with a couple more from that Severan series, also from Anchialus.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>An AE27 (11.73g) was struck for Caracalla in that series, with three looping arches instead of four.&nbsp; The coins for father and son were both pentassaria.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]692696[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But now it really gets interesting.&nbsp; Not to be outdone, Geta was featured on a (dekassaria?) AE29 (13.06) in which a rather animated figure (of Geta?) is perched atop the gate between two looping arches.&nbsp; To my knowledge this coin is presently unpublished, so I ask that the image not circulate. [ATTACH=full]692697[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This motif was resurrected after the dynasty by Gordian III.&nbsp; The coin below is an AE29 but weighs a whopping 21.22g.&nbsp; &nbsp; [ATTACH=full]692699[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The reverse motif is like that of Geta, but the figure atop the gate is advancing in the opposite direction.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since it too was produced at the provincial mint at Anchialus, I consider it to be from the same series as the Severans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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