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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7621519, member: 110350&quot;]Great choice! I would love to buy the Titus you decided to leave for the rest of us, but the Social Security payment I got this month is a bit short, especially because I have to use it to pay my June rent!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my one Nicopolis coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Diadumenian Caesar, AE Tetrassarion (4 Assaria), 217-218 AD, Nicopolis ad Istrum [Nikyup, Bulgaria] Mint, Moesia Inferior, Statius Longinus, Consular Legate. Obv. Bareheaded bust of Diadumenian right, draped and armored, seen from behind, M OPEL DIADOV-MENIANOC K (OV ligate) [ = <i>Marcus Opellius Diadumenianus, Caesar</i>] / Rev. Artemis, wearing short chiton, walking right, holding bow in left hand and drawing arrow from quiver in right hand, hound jumping behind her left foot, VΠ CTA ΛONΓINOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOC I / CTPΩ in exergue [ =&nbsp; <i>Consular legate Longinus, (Governor) of the residents of Nikopolis on the (river) Istros</i>].&nbsp; AMNG I/I 1843 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I</i>&nbsp; (Berlin, 1898) at p. 467]; Varbanov I 3743 [Varbanov, Ivan, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume I: Dacia, Moesia Superior &amp; Moesia Inferior</i> (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2005) at p. 308]; Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov 8.25.13.3 [Hristova, H., H.-J. Hoeft, &amp; G. Jekov. <i>The Coins of Moesia Inferior 1st - 3rd c. AD: Nicopolis ad Istrum</i> (Blagoevgrad, 2015)].*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311565[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*Obverse die matches the die classified as Obverse Die No. 9 in table entitled “Nicopolis ad Istrum - 4 assaria - die matches” (see <a href="http://www.diadumenian.com/Die%20tables%20nicopolis%204%20assaria.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.diadumenian.com/Die%20tables%20nicopolis%204%20assaria.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.diadumenian.com/Die tables nicopolis 4 assaria.html</a>). It is an obverse die match to the two coins depicted at&nbsp; <a href="http://www.diadumenian.com/Nicopolis%20artemis%20longinus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.diadumenian.com/Nicopolis%20artemis%20longinus.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.diadumenian.com/Nicopolis artemis longinus.html</a>, the second of which was sold at Gorny &amp; Mosch, Giessener Münzhandlung Auction 121, 2005 Lot number: 300. Coin is also an obverse die match to, <i>inter alia</i>, the coins depicted at <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=17248" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=17248" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=17248</a> and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=28570" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=28570" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=28570</a> .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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