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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8330986, member: 110350&quot;]Macrinus Augustus and Diadumenian Caesar, AE Pentassarion [5 Assaria], 217-218 AD, Marcianopolis Mint, Moesia Inferior [now Devnya, Bulgaria] (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 Macrinus ΠONTIANOV MAP-KIANOΠOΛEITΩN (ΩN ligate) [ = <i>Consular Legate Pontianus, (coin) of the people of Markianopolis</i>]. AMNG I/I 740 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I</i> (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)]; Diadumenian.com /marcianopolis5.html, No. Mar5.33d. 25 mm, 12.89 g. <i>Purchased from Kirk Davis, Cat # 75, Fall 2020, Lot 62;</i> e<i>x. Dr. Paul Rynearson (ca. 2003).</i> (Coin is double die match to Lot 696, CNG Triton XII Auction, Jan. 5, 2009.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macrinus-diadumenian-hermes-photo-jpg-jpg.1314792/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next, another Roman Provincial with facing busts of two people on the obverse. (No deities!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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