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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8348303, member: 80952&quot;]Hello ladies and gentlemen,</p><p><br /></p><p>My package from the Saturday auction arrived today from a different country, after being sent on Tuesday - well done, FedEx. </p><p>(of course, things are back to <i>normal </i>for another package, sent on Monday from Germany, usually they arrive on Friday morning, but now FedEx decided to send it from Munchen to Paris and back to Dietzenbach - Germany <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p>Now in regards to my package today, I received 4 coins. All OK, decent quality, decent prices, the one I was expecting impatiently was the Maximinus Thrax from Tarsus with the Three Graces (impressive in hand, biggest in my collection - 37 mm and 26 grams)... but I didn&#039;t forget about this one</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480916[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480917[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Silver, 6.60g 21mm) CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea. Trajan. 98-117 AD. AR Didrachm</p><p>112-114 AD. AYTOKΡ KAIC NEΡ TΡAIANO CEB ΓEΡM ΔAK, laureate and draped bust of Trajan, r., seen from rear, globe beneath / ΔHMAΡX EX YΠATO ς, female bust (Artemis ?) in chiton, holding spear in r. hand and patera in l.</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC III, 3006;&nbsp; S 196a, Metcalf Hoard 335–351 and Pl. 18–19, Metcalf Conspectus 64e, Ganschow 131d</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the auction house made a mistake in the initial attribution - Sydenham 196; Metcalf 64c. I checked and my coin appears to have the globe under the bust (64c doesn&#039;t). Not a big mistake, but I try to be as accurate as possible when attributing my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>For my tastes, a good coin. Ticks some nice boxes </p><p>- a Trajan coin, especially with a good portrait</p><p>- a reverse I did not have in the collection</p><p>- a new denomination - didrachm. </p><p><br /></p><p>Always liked Caesarea coins for their portraits, accurate and if it weren&#039;t for the Greek legends, one could swear these are Imperial coins from Rome. </p><p>Interested to hear your theories about the reverse character, as it appears Artemis is not 100% certain. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please post Trajan coins, coins with uncertain characters, didrachms, Caesarea coins or anything you feel relevant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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