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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7623662, member: 19463"]Most emperors who were in power for over a short time issued more than one variety of Victory type. Winning was a big thing in their line of work. I always liked the version you showed with the family name ANTONINI on the reverse. I have always had a fondness for the Eastern mint coins (its a style thing) so my favorite Elagabalus is an Eastern (Antioch?) denarius. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311775[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is another category we might mention. Unofficial. The coin below is not an official product. I am not even 100% sure it is ancient so I could only sell it to someone confident enough in the series to have an opinion I would value. The coin has several points worthy of note. The style seems good except it is not 'correct' for either Rome or 'Antioch' at that period. 'Antioch' had several different styles to the point that I will not faint dead away when someone decides that there was more than one mint involved. Perhaps someone now in kindergarten will study these properly someday. The reverse legend (VITORIA AVGV) is lacking one letter and has one extra. Letter omissions happen; the added V shows that the cutter knew the word and continued with the correct next letter. I have other oddball Severan coins with the added V but have no idea what that might mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: while typing all this, I see Pete B posted a similar design reverse with normal style and two shields at Victory's feet where my coin has small annulets. Related? Were my annulets supposed to be shields? Really, I did NOT need another question about this coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not remember buying the coin and my catalog card from September 2001 lists it as from 'Melcher' at a price FREE. Marc Melcher was a really big time collector of Severan and Eastern Severan coins best known to me as having sold off his collections more than once. Look him up in Triton VI (2003 - two years after I got this coin). I do not remember meeting him but I am bad with names. Why was I given the coin? Did it come directly from Mr. Melcher at a show or by mail or did I just catalog it that way for reasons lost to time. The coin has green wax in the big crack. It is not fourree. It does not have bronze disease. Is the wax from a cleaning process? It struck me as odd enough that my 2001 catalog entry mentioned the wax and listed the coin as 'Status Uncertain'. I would really appreciate hearing about other coins even slightly related to this one in style or wax. If I ever knew, that is gone. As is often said by one of my finest friends: "Getting old ain't for sissies!"</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311776[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7623662, member: 19463"]Most emperors who were in power for over a short time issued more than one variety of Victory type. Winning was a big thing in their line of work. I always liked the version you showed with the family name ANTONINI on the reverse. I have always had a fondness for the Eastern mint coins (its a style thing) so my favorite Elagabalus is an Eastern (Antioch?) denarius. [ATTACH=full]1311775[/ATTACH] There is another category we might mention. Unofficial. The coin below is not an official product. I am not even 100% sure it is ancient so I could only sell it to someone confident enough in the series to have an opinion I would value. The coin has several points worthy of note. The style seems good except it is not 'correct' for either Rome or 'Antioch' at that period. 'Antioch' had several different styles to the point that I will not faint dead away when someone decides that there was more than one mint involved. Perhaps someone now in kindergarten will study these properly someday. The reverse legend (VITORIA AVGV) is lacking one letter and has one extra. Letter omissions happen; the added V shows that the cutter knew the word and continued with the correct next letter. I have other oddball Severan coins with the added V but have no idea what that might mean. Edit: while typing all this, I see Pete B posted a similar design reverse with normal style and two shields at Victory's feet where my coin has small annulets. Related? Were my annulets supposed to be shields? Really, I did NOT need another question about this coin! I do not remember buying the coin and my catalog card from September 2001 lists it as from 'Melcher' at a price FREE. Marc Melcher was a really big time collector of Severan and Eastern Severan coins best known to me as having sold off his collections more than once. Look him up in Triton VI (2003 - two years after I got this coin). I do not remember meeting him but I am bad with names. Why was I given the coin? Did it come directly from Mr. Melcher at a show or by mail or did I just catalog it that way for reasons lost to time. The coin has green wax in the big crack. It is not fourree. It does not have bronze disease. Is the wax from a cleaning process? It struck me as odd enough that my 2001 catalog entry mentioned the wax and listed the coin as 'Status Uncertain'. I would really appreciate hearing about other coins even slightly related to this one in style or wax. If I ever knew, that is gone. As is often said by one of my finest friends: "Getting old ain't for sissies!" [ATTACH=full]1311776[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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