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<p>[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 3282083, member: 87404"]My other mini-myst coin I'll add was brought up a month or so ago, but still unsolved... It's confronted busts roman provincial probably Moesia or Judaean, but can't make out who the busts are, and not what the reverse is.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]867690[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Some simple questions to help narrow down what it is not...</p><ul> <li>Is one of them Serapis? (isn't he shown on confronted busts if the emperor is not yet married? I don't think it's him, not a turreted headdress, right?)</li> <li>Is either a profile of a female? (I'm not seeing one, are you?)</li> <li>Are they both male profiles, and therefore are father/son or emperor/caesar? (I'm thinking maybe yes?)</li> <li>Any idea on reverse?</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/help-faustina-ii-alexandria-and-other-adventures-in-id-ing-a-mixed-lot.327165/#post-3237766" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/help-faustina-ii-alexandria-and-other-adventures-in-id-ing-a-mixed-lot.327165/#post-3237766">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/help-faustina-ii-alexandria-and-other-adventures-in-id-ing-a-mixed-lot.327165/#post-3237766</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now to do some acsearch-ing... </p><p>"Hey, Google, who are the confronted busts on my worn coin?"</p><blockquote><p>"I don't understand."</p></blockquote><p>"That's what I thought."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 3282083, member: 87404"]My other mini-myst coin I'll add was brought up a month or so ago, but still unsolved... It's confronted busts roman provincial probably Moesia or Judaean, but can't make out who the busts are, and not what the reverse is. [ATTACH=full]867690[/ATTACH] Some simple questions to help narrow down what it is not... [LIST] [*]Is one of them Serapis? (isn't he shown on confronted busts if the emperor is not yet married? I don't think it's him, not a turreted headdress, right?) [*]Is either a profile of a female? (I'm not seeing one, are you?) [*]Are they both male profiles, and therefore are father/son or emperor/caesar? (I'm thinking maybe yes?) [*]Any idea on reverse? [/LIST] [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/help-faustina-ii-alexandria-and-other-adventures-in-id-ing-a-mixed-lot.327165/#post-3237766[/url] Now to do some acsearch-ing... "Hey, Google, who are the confronted busts on my worn coin?" [INDENT]"I don't understand."[/INDENT] "That's what I thought."[/QUOTE]
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