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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3804020, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;ve gotta go with [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] on this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, wait.&nbsp; He&#039;s not a choice <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not Doug&#039;s coin.&nbsp; The lighting and focus aren&#039;t right... unless he purposefully shot it that way.&nbsp; Nah.&nbsp; Not Doug&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could be Valentinian&#039;s-- he does like to shoot in sunlight, and this coin was either shot in full sun or very bright lights.&nbsp; It&#039;s a coin he would not shun.&nbsp; But... I&#039;ve already picked Big V for Round One, so not him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis... nope, unless he purposefully lit the coin differently than usual and missed the focus a bit.&nbsp; The &quot;why I bought it&quot; has enough depth of fact to be a Curtis choice, but the blurb alone isn&#039;t very revealing because most CT regulars do at least a little bit of research beyond price.</p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves Al or Parthicus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Parthicus is heavy on Eastern coins but we know he sometimes strays.&nbsp; He shoots in sunlight and the camera focus usually isn&#039;t great (sorry man... but it&#039;s true <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) so that fits the presented images.&nbsp; Parthicus&#039;s joined images are usually pretty small though-- sub-800 pixels wide-- and the OP mystery coin image is almost twice as wide.&nbsp; Curtis could have enlarged it but the focus/resolution would be even worse, or it could be an auction house or seller image.&nbsp; Hmm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Al... hmm&nbsp; Higher end collector, seems to have a thing for Syrian tets with eagle reverses, likes to slab higher grade coins prior to selling so the &quot;magic letters&quot; will attract HA buyers.&nbsp; This does not look like an Al coin unless he was buying some lower grade coins to give away, although he does have some interesting provincials.&nbsp; Al usually posts auction house images so I&#039;m not sure what his photographs look like, or the images could be from the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Gotta go with [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] for this one!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Edited to add a coin for the thread.&nbsp; Nothing special, but also a confronted bust provincial (and a crummy image that needs to be reshot!):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_e0df52a2dbdb4ba3acc59ed4f153eedf.jpg_srb_p_800_402_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb&amp;hash=1dc7866911002fc465e2c31f2f15e814" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>MOESIA INFERIOR, Markianopolis</b></p><p>Macrinus and Diadumenian, CE 217-218</p><p>AE pentassarion, 27 mm, 12.3 gm</p><p>Obv: AYT K M OΠEΛ CEV MAKPEINOC K M OΠE ANTΩNINOC; Laureate head of Macrinus left and bare head of Diadumenian right, confronted</p><p>Rev: VΠ ΠONTIANOV MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN; Artemis advancing right, reaching for an arrow in quiver at shoulder and holding bow, hound at foot, E in left field</p><p>Ref: Varbanov 1159 var. (obverse legend); Megaw MAR5.12d; Hristova/Jekov 6.24.13.1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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