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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2446354, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Hey, it&#039;s not a chick-coin, but it&#039;s still very cool (congrats, Mat)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Hmmm ... Hemidrachms from Cappadocia, Caesaraea, eh?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Sadly, I have none ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Oh, but wait!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; I do have a few examples from Cappadocia, Caesaraea ... will that do?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Nerva AR &quot;Didrachm&quot; ... not a &quot;Hemi&quot; but it&#039;s still in the good ol&#039; drachm family, eh? (a big AR-fatty)</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">CAPPADOCIA, Caesaraea-Eusebia</span></b></p><p>AD 96-98</p><p>Struck AD 98</p><p>Diameter: 20 x 22 mm</p><p>Weight: 6.64 grams</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head right</p><p>Reverse: Club set on ground; date in legend</p><p>Reference: Metcalf, Caesarea 45; Sydenham, Caesarea 153</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]510701[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Gordian III, Cappadocia, Caesarea-Eusebia AE21</span></b></p><p>238-244 AD</p><p>Dated RY 4 (AD 240/1)</p><p>Diameter: AE21</p><p>Weight: 8.24 g</p><p>Obverse: AV K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC, laureate head right</p><p>Reverse: MHT PO KAI B N, calathus containing five grain ears</p><p>Reference: Sydenham, Caesarea; SNG Hunterian; SNG von Aulock; SNG Righetti; Lindgren &amp; Kovacs; Lindgren III; MPR II</p><p>Other: VF, some cleaning marks … extremely rare</p><p>… apparently an unrecorded type for Gordian III</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]510702[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea- Eusebia,</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Tranquillina, Augusta, AR &quot;Drachm&quot; ... again, not a &quot;Hemi&quot; ... but still fricken awesome Drachm!!</span></b></p><p>AD 241-244</p><p>Dated RY 4 of Gordian III (AD 240/1)</p><p>Diameter: 18 mm</p><p>Weight: 2.71 grams</p><p>Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane</p><p>Reverse: Mt. Argaeus; ЄT Δ (date) in exergue</p><p>Reference: Bland, Last 58; Sydenham, Caesarea Supp. 617aa</p><p>Other: 5h … VF, find patina</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]510703[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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