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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2027170, member: 19463&quot;]I have posted before this link to a friend&#039;s page listing the magistrates from Marcianopolis and other cities of the region which allow confirmation, among other things, as to whether you coin is a Caracalla or Elagabalus or more close dating sequence.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://akropoliscoins.com/page8.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://akropoliscoins.com/page8.html" rel="nofollow">http://akropoliscoins.com/page8.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was a time that these were rare coins but the opening of Eastern Europe in the 1990&#039;s made it possible to get some coins and even some books specializing on these coins.&nbsp; I even have a friend who learned Bulgarian so she could read these books.&nbsp; That led to a period where some dealers looked down their noses at coins of this region since they were now common and (this one really offends me) since most coins of the region have those centration pits that make condition snobs unwilling to own the coins since they consider them &#039;faults&#039;.&nbsp; That is better for me since I was able to buy some of them during the time they were uncool.&nbsp; For the most part, Marcianopolis is less common than Nicopolis and a couple other cities of the region.&nbsp; Really high grade ones are not common.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A few I like (Have fun identifying them.)&nbsp; CT limits us to ten per post.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368236[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368237[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368238[/ATTACH] </p><p>This one is unusual but not as rare as I might expect.&nbsp; Why?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]368239[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368240[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368241[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368242[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368243[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368244[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]368245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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