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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4611462, member: 57495"]Those are wonderful dies! [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] is your man for coins of Nicopolis, but they all appear to be obverse and reverse die matches to me. It seems to me that for these 3rd century provincials of Thrace/Moesia, it was sometimes the case that only one set of dies were ever made. For one Gordian III provincial of Hadrianopolis that I recently looked up on RPC online (mine is the 11th coin in <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/67299" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/67299" rel="nofollow">the entry</a>), from what I see, all 13 examples with both sides clearly enough illustrated are double die matches. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my favorite coin of Nicopolis...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142098[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ELAGABALUS</b></p><p>AE27. 12.24g, 26.9mm. MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum, circa 218-222. Novius Rufus, legate. Varbanov 3949 (same dies); AMNG 1933 corr. (2 specimens). O: AVT M AVP – ANTΩNINOC (NO ligate), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front. R: VΠ NOBIOV POVΦOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPO, C ICTPΩ in exergue, Pan, with goats horns and legs, standing left, head right, draped in fawn skin, fawn hooves hanging from left arm, playing pipes (?), holding pedum in right hand, and placing left hoof on chest of panther which is lying on its back on the ground and raising its head.</p><p><i>Ex Dr. Rainer Pudill Collection, purchased from Majestic, Großostheim, on 24 Sep 1997</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4611462, member: 57495"]Those are wonderful dies! [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] is your man for coins of Nicopolis, but they all appear to be obverse and reverse die matches to me. It seems to me that for these 3rd century provincials of Thrace/Moesia, it was sometimes the case that only one set of dies were ever made. For one Gordian III provincial of Hadrianopolis that I recently looked up on RPC online (mine is the 11th coin in [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/67299']the entry[/URL]), from what I see, all 13 examples with both sides clearly enough illustrated are double die matches. Here's my favorite coin of Nicopolis... [ATTACH=full]1142098[/ATTACH] [B]ELAGABALUS[/B] AE27. 12.24g, 26.9mm. MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum, circa 218-222. Novius Rufus, legate. Varbanov 3949 (same dies); AMNG 1933 corr. (2 specimens). O: AVT M AVP – ANTΩNINOC (NO ligate), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front. R: VΠ NOBIOV POVΦOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPO, C ICTPΩ in exergue, Pan, with goats horns and legs, standing left, head right, draped in fawn skin, fawn hooves hanging from left arm, playing pipes (?), holding pedum in right hand, and placing left hoof on chest of panther which is lying on its back on the ground and raising its head. [I]Ex Dr. Rainer Pudill Collection, purchased from Majestic, Großostheim, on 24 Sep 1997[/I][/QUOTE]
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