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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4896797, member: 19463&quot;]Maximinus I have some good Provincials, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandria tetradrachms</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181622[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1181623[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anchialus dolphin and fish - This city demonstrates a rule of Greek language &#039;euphony&#039;.&nbsp; The Greek letters spell out AGCHIALEON but AGCH sticks in your throat so they inserted an unwritten N to make it pronounceable.&nbsp; When translated into the Latin alphabet, they wrote the N and not the G providing a point of confusion for students.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181624[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anchialus Apollo</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181625[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anchialus Ares</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181626[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have always been fond of this AE31 of Ninica Claudiopolis.&nbsp; I bought it as a Maximus but, despite the bare head portrait, the legend reads Maximinus.&nbsp; To accomplish this, the die cutter ran out of room obverse right after MAXI and started a second, inner, row with MINVS.&nbsp; One can forgive the confusion.&nbsp; The examples of this coin I have seen tend to be damaged by poorly applied countermarks of which only the star at the left is clear here. The other three just muddle the obverse and flatten the reverse. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181627[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are Provincials for Maximus, too.&nbsp; This four assaria is Tomis with Hygeia feeding her snake.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181630[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In Imperials, I have never been able to get a satisfactory photo of this somewhat smoothed Maximus sestertius.&nbsp; Nice ones tend to be out of my price bracket.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181631[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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