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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4557529, member: 57495"]All three are attractive and interesting.. congrats! Your "compromise" photo of the Domna is as nice a shot as I can imagine for a coin with a dark patina. And the Tiberius is definitely a keeper, even if you had to pay abit of extra to the various necessary middlemen. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's been 11 days now since I won the coins below and I've yet to receive them, so I can safely assume I'm not getting the 'Rocket Mail' treatment for them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I'll share them anyway since both show Caracalla shaking hands with someone, though unlike your Amasia, it's not with Geta. First one from Augusta Traiana (Thrace) is a marriage commemorative, and has him holding hands with Plautilla. The second and more interesting one is from Prusias ad Hypium (Bithynia), and there Caracalla is on the left, getting a firm handshake from dad, while Geta is shown quite clearly in smaller stature and being ignored on Septimius's right. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128312[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128313[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4557529, member: 57495"]All three are attractive and interesting.. congrats! Your "compromise" photo of the Domna is as nice a shot as I can imagine for a coin with a dark patina. And the Tiberius is definitely a keeper, even if you had to pay abit of extra to the various necessary middlemen. It's been 11 days now since I won the coins below and I've yet to receive them, so I can safely assume I'm not getting the 'Rocket Mail' treatment for them. :rolleyes: I'll share them anyway since both show Caracalla shaking hands with someone, though unlike your Amasia, it's not with Geta. First one from Augusta Traiana (Thrace) is a marriage commemorative, and has him holding hands with Plautilla. The second and more interesting one is from Prusias ad Hypium (Bithynia), and there Caracalla is on the left, getting a firm handshake from dad, while Geta is shown quite clearly in smaller stature and being ignored on Septimius's right. [ATTACH=full]1128312[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1128313[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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