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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4877526, member: 87809&quot;]They arrived, all of them, and unharmed <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. </p><p><br /></p><p>All the pictures are from Frank. </p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t have measured nor weighted the coins yet, and this information was not available on biddr:</p><p><br /></p><p>1.) I didn&#039;t have a Helena, mother of Constantine coin and I thought it would be nice to have one. Liked this one very much because her almost cartoonish portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ3 Reduced Follis, Mysia, Cyzikus, 325 - 326 AD; officina Mark A</p><p>RIC VII, 39; Sear (4th edition) 3908; LRBC 1176; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: FL HELENA AVGVSTA, Diademed, mantled, with necklace bust r.</p><p>Rev.: SECVRITAS REI PVBLICAE, Securitas standing l., lowering olive branch, raising hem of robe with right hand; Mintmark SMKA•</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1178040[/ATTACH]</p><p>2.) Severus Alexander, Æ Sestertius, Rome, 231 - 235 AD</p><p>RIC IV 645b; Cohen 509; Sear 8013</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG laureate bust to right with draped far shoulder; border of pearls</p><p>Rev.: PROVIDENTIA AVG Annona standing left holding anchor in l. hand and grain ears in r. hand over modius; S C across fields; border of pearls</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1178043[/ATTACH]</p><p>3.) Æ 22, Phrygia, Apameia, ca. 88 - 40 BC, (modern Dinar, Turkey). Magistrates Menek(leous) and Diod(dorus)</p><p>SNG Ashmolean 976; SNG Copenhagen 175; HGC 7, 672; Sear 5121</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Laureate head of Zeus right.</p><p>Rev.:&nbsp; ΑΠΑΜΕ / MENEK / ΔIOΔ in 3 lines (magistrates Menek(leous) and Diod(dorus). Facing statue of Artemis Anaïtis.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1178049[/ATTACH] </p><p>4.) AR Didrachm, Caria, ca. 340 - 336/5 BC</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 597; SNG von Aulock 2375-2376; Weber 6608; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Three-quarter facing head of Apollo wearing laurel wreath, drapery at neck</p><p>Rev.: ΠIΞΩΔAPOY Zeus Labraundos standing right, holding double axe (labrys) and lotus-tipped </p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1178058[/ATTACH] </p><p>5.) ROMAN PROVINCIAL, 11 pcs, all around VG, not bad, generally probably identifiable</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1178064[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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