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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3250842, member: 85693&quot;]Taking another eBay gamble, I won five coins for $10.00.&nbsp; Described as &quot;Lot of Five Roman Coins&quot; and somewhat darkly photographed, it was a pleasant surprise when it showed up in the mail. </p><p><br /></p><p>Best of the lot is a Roman Egyptian tetradrachm of Commodus with Pronoia on the reverse.&nbsp; This baffled me at first - I didn&#039;t&#039; think Egyptian tets of this era had reverse inscriptions, but I am quite new to this kind of material.&nbsp; Since I couldn&#039;t find any other Commodus tets with this reverse on Coin Talk, I thought I&#039;d share it.&nbsp; It has a black patina with light green highlights that worry me some - the green is hard, not powdery, so I am hoping it is not bronze disease; I&#039;ll be keeping an eye on it.&nbsp; The coin is blacker and light-greener than my sunlit photo here. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]852945[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Egypt&nbsp; Potin Tetradrachm</b></p><p><b>Commodus</b></p><p><b>Year 30 (189/190 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint </b></p><p>Laureate head right, MAKOMANTWCEBEVCEB / ΠP ONOIA L-Λ, Pronoia std. left, right hand raised, sceptre in left.</p><p>Milne 2691; Koln 2249;</p><p>Curtis 839; Emmett 2554.</p><p>(10.91 grams / 24 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of this &quot;Roman&quot; lot was pleasing, peculiar and pitiful: </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Egypt, Diocletian Tetradrachm, Nike reverse:&nbsp; black patina, quite nice. Pleasing!</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian As - Fortuna reverse, a bit rough, partial green patina.&nbsp; Pleasing (but kind of pitiful)</p><p><br /></p><p>Colonial Virginia - 1773 halfpenny of George III - This was just a black disc in the seller&#039;s photos.&nbsp; In hand, I figured this was just one of those &quot;unofficial&quot; halfpennies that are so common from this era, but when I got around to looking into it, it is actually an official Tower of London mint product for pre-Revolutionary Virginia.&nbsp; This one seems a bit undersized, so it might be &quot;unofficial&quot; as well.&nbsp; Peculiar (for a &quot;Roman&quot; coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Great Britain - 1826 halfpenny of George IV with rims hammered flat in several places.&nbsp; Pitiful. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]852946[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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