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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4609272, member: 110350&quot;]Here&#039;s my one Hermes:</p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus and Diadumenian Caesar, AE Pentassarion [5 Assaria], 217-218 AD, Marcianopolis Mint, Moesia Inferior (Pontianus, consular legate). Obv. Confronted heads of Macrinus, laureate, right, and Diadumenian, bareheaded, left, [AVT K OΠE]Λ CEV MAKPEINOC K M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC [<i>bracketed portion off flan</i>][ = <i>Imperator, Caesar, Opellius Augustus Macrinus, Caesar Marcus Opellius Antoninus </i>] / Rev. Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in extended right hand and caduceus in left hand; chlamys hanging over left arm; E [mark of value for “5”] in right field, VΠ ΠONTIANOV MAP-KIANOΠOΛEITΩN (ΩN ligate) [ = <i>Consular Legate Pontianus, (coin) of the people of Markianopolis</i>].&nbsp; AMNG I/I 740 [Behrendt Pick, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I</i>&nbsp; (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 240-241]; BMC 3 Thrace 35 [R.S. Poole, ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. </i>(London, 1877) at p. 32]; Hristova &amp; Jekov 6.24.10.3 [Nina Hristova &amp; Gospodin Jekov, <i>The Local Coinage of the Roman Empire - Moesia Inferior, I - III c. A.D., MARCIANOPOLIS </i> (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 2006)]; Varbanov (Eng.) Vol. I, 1192 <i>var</i>. (E to left) [Ivan Varbanov, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume I: Dacia, Moesia Superior &amp; Moesia Inferior</i> (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2005)]; Diadumenian.com /marcianopolis5.html, No. Mar5.33d.&nbsp; 25 mm, 12.89 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex: Dr. Paul Rynearson (ca. 2003)</i>; <i>Ex: Kirk Davis, Cat # 75, Fall 2020, Lot 62. </i>(Coin is double die match to Lot 696, CNG Triton XII Auction, Jan. 5, 2009.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141669[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Republican gryphon, with a Juno obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Papius, AR Serrate Denarius, 79 BCE. Obv. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin; control-symbol of lyre behind/ Rev. Gryphon prancing right, control-symbol of lyre-key below, L. PAPI in exergue. Crawford 384/1 (see also Crawford Vol. II Plate LXVII, control-symbol 127 &amp; p. 788), RSC I Papia 1, Sear RCV I 311 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 7 at pp. 32-35, BMCRR Rome 2977-3095 [<i>control-symbol pair not in BMCRR</i>]. 19 mm., 3.79 g., 9 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141670[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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