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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2668254, member: 84744"]Pairs I'm missing half of: Balbinus & Pupienus, Macrianus and Quietus... somebody post, please! I must post Sev Alex and his domineering mater:[ATTACH=full]593496[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]593497[/ATTACH] Any "barbarous" imitation with its base type:[ATTACH=full]593498[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]593499[/ATTACH] And for something a little more unusual, Constantine X (1059-1067) w/ Eudocia, SB 1853, plus Nur ad-Din ibn Zengi (1146-1174) fals, Aleppo mint:[ATTACH=full]593512[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]593513[/ATTACH] Yes, that's Christ on an Islamic coin several hundred years after the initial Arab conquests.  A blundered Greek legend is visible in the margins on this coin, including the "XC" for Christos (originally in the field on the Byzantine prototype), as well as Christ's nimbus.  Northern Syria had only been lost by the Byzantines relatively recently, so Byzantine bronze–mostly anonymous types–probably still circulated in the area.  (Note that this denomination corresponds to the bronzes before the reform of Alexius in 1092.)[/QUOTE]