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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1823105, member: 19463&quot;]The reverse of many Provincial coins is the genitive plural of the city name here meaning &quot;of the (people of)&nbsp; Ulpian Anchialus&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp; Ulpian refers to the family name of the emperor Trajan who proclaimed it to be a city.&nbsp; Before that I guess it was considered a village?</p><p>I assume the shoulder work is cuirass or armor.&nbsp; It almost looks like chain mail and considering that the earliest known example of chain mail is from Romania, perhaps the die cutter decided to give Septimius some local duds. </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_(armour)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_(armour)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_(armour)</a></p><p>My coin below shares the obverse die with the OP coin.&nbsp; It is a common obverse die from this city. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]299658[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t comment on the other except to say that it is a nice example.&nbsp; Those who were here when last discussed may have read my page on that coin and its relatives:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gadpaisa.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gadpaisa.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gadpaisa.html</a></p><p>The design makes a lot more sense if you start at the top and follow how it developed into the last few examples.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0sasgrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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