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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4679772, member: 75937&quot;]I do love some Hygieia and family! This one&#039;s my favorite because it has both Asklepios and Hygieia and Faustina II!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-hadrianopolis-hygeia-and-asklepios-jpg.940547/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 22.7 mm, 6.54 g, 7 h.</p><p>Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 161-176.</p><p>Obv: ·I·AVCTEINA CEBACTH, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Hygieia, feeding serpent from patera, and Asklepios, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, standing facing one-another.</p><p>Refs: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/" rel="nofollow">RPC IV (temp) 10453</a>; SNG Cop 560; Jurukova 84-87; Varbanov 3219; Moushmov 2521; Mionnet suppl. 2, 636.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like this one because it&#039;s an odd denomination used only in the city of Tomis, a 4-1/2 assarion piece:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/gordian-iii-and-tranquillina-tomis-hygeia-2-savoca-jpg.972281/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gordian III, with Tranquillina, A.D. 238-244</p><p>Roman provincial AE 4.5 assaria, 12.80 g, 28.2 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Tomis, A.D. 241-244.</p><p>Obv: AVT K M ANTΩNIOC ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC // CABINIA TPA / NKVΛΛINA, confronted laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian right and diademed, draped bust of Tranquillina left.</p><p>Rev: MHTPOΠON-TOV TOMEΩC, Hygieia standing right, feeding serpent from patera; Δ&lt; (ligate) in lower left field.</p><p>Refs: AMNG I (Pick) 3534.</p><p>Note: Easily confused with the more commonly encountered Moushmov 2288, AMNG 3535, which does not bear a mark of value and may have been tariffed at four assaria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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