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Message:: [QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4564611, member: 84047"]All fine coins, Severus Alexander! I love them! Here is an Artavasdus.Artavasdus. Miliaresion. 1.73 gr. 21 mm. 11 hr. Sear 1545; DO 6; BNP 1. Elsen 125, lot 742. Sternberg 14 Nov. 1988, lot 585. Ex Henri Pottier collection.[ATTACH=full]1130228[/ATTACH]Graffiti on the reverse. I believe this is the first miliaresion we've come to, so until we reach the reign of Romanus I, our miliaresia will lack portraits. We'll have to content ourselves with the imperial names for the obverse and the cross potent on steps and IhSUS XRIS tUs nICA inscription on the reverse. I do not have Artavasdus in gold, strangely preferring to feed my wife, children, 3 dogs and a horse for 2-3 years. Misplaced priorities, I know. Some scholars tentatively assign to Artavasdus and his son Nikephorus a rare follis, which Grierson in DOC gives to Leo III and Constantine V. So perhaps I CAN offer a portrait of the usurper and his son... Leo III (or Artavasdus?) Follis 2.61 gr. 21 mm. hr. 6. Sear 1515; DO 36. Ex Protonotarios collection. The reattribution was put forth by H. Pottier, "Restitution d’un follis à Artavasde, l’usurpateur usurpé (Constantinople 742/3), in Cercles d’Etudes Numismatiques, volume 26, 1989, no. 1. And looking at this photo once more, I see it is very poor. Sorry![ATTACH=full]1130245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]