Featured Coinage of Marcianopolis

What, are you kidding me? I'll trade for yours any day! That's one amazing serpent.

 

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I forgot these guys! It's either Macrinus and Diadumenian or Beevis and the other one.

 

I might not have the right Moesia here...inferior, superior, exterior, posterior or one of the other suburbs....that Gordian III is nasty but ya got a play the ones ya got!

 

Phew, I'm glad I didn't have to go out and buy one afterall.


SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
AE (3.21g, 21.2mm)
MOESIA INFERIOR Marcianopolis, 193 - 211 AD.
H&J, Marcianopolis 6.14.14.1; Varbanov 732; Moushmov 397.
O: AV K L CE CEVHPOC, laureate bust right.
R: MARKIANOPOLITWN, Hercules strangling the Nemean lion.

 

i missed this thread somehow, i have a few to contribute....

a caracalla and julia domna pentassaria







a porr little elagabalus with tripod snake reverse





and a poorer little diadumenian assarian with a lion reveres.

 

Nice!

 

I have another Moesia offering ...

Plautilla, AE-26. Moesia
Augusta AD 202 – 205
13.33g. 26mm.
Obverse: Plautilla, the wife of Caracalla (Her draped bust right)
Reverse: Eagle standing front on globe, head right, wreath in beak

 

Septimius Severus and Julia Domna:


28-27 mm.
"Sept" in Greek 10:00 - 11:00. "Severus" in Greek 11:30 - 1:30, "Julia" 2:30 - 4:00. "Domna" below the busts
Tyche (Fortuna) standing left with rudder and cornucopiae
Magistrate: Flavius Ulpianus
SNG Copenhagen II, plate 4.214.
Sear Greek Imperial 2285 obverse/different reverse.
"0f Marcianopolis" in Greek 11:30 - 6:00.

 

I'll resurrect this thread to post a coin that arrived today. Not happy with the pic, but I'll save reshooting it for another day...

 

Oh my yes, that will look very sweet in your new fish-tank!!

 

It does have that overgrown with algae look.

 

Vis-a-vis portraits have the problem that what looks good on him usually does not look good on her. Then there is the question as to whether you should match the lighting of the obverse to that of the reverse. Valentinian's image does this last but Julia looks better than Septimius. Your two faces match but the reverse doesn't. Getting the both of these at the same time is a task at which I usually fail.

 

The reverse is cool...very striking. But I don't know this coin. What's the attribution stuff?

 

Philip II and his queen, Otacilia Severa, reverse is Serapis standing. I haven't looked up any reference numbers yet.

 

thx

 

A HUGE, perhaps unique, medallion purchased about a year ago...
Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior, Septimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE 42 mm medallion, 52.54 gm, 2h. Aurelius Gallus, magistrate. OBV: ΑV K Λ CEΠ CЄVΗΡΟC Π, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus right / REV: V AV ΓAΛΛΟ • MA-PKIAN, Hephaestus seated to right on cippus, applying hammer to a crested Corinthian helmet set on low column; faced by Athena, standing left and holding spear and shield; in exergue, OΠOΛΙΤΩΝ. Varbanov ---; AMNG ---; BMC ---. Unrecorded in the principal references.

 

Magnificent! If it were commonly available, half the size and twice as worn, I'd feel I really needed one of these. As it is, it is beyond a dream. Thank you for sharing.

 

Holy smokes => the new guy has skills-to-burn!!

*welcome, ancientnut*

Man, I'm dying to see your next addition .... please keep 'em coming!!

 

WOW! Quite an entrance, @ancientnut!

 

Thanks for the comments! I purchased the medallion in a Heritage auction last January. I've since decided to limit myself to Greek silver tetradrachms/staters and have consigned it, together with 22 other coins, to CNG. I bet I won't get my cost back, but that's the price you pay for impulse purchases!