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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3056197, member: 44316"]There are a number of architectural types from Nicopolis. This one came from the recent Triskeles auction associated with vcoins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]765673[/ATTACH]</p><p>The auction image was much greener. With the coin in hand, I digitally altered the photo to look more like it really is, dark brown.</p><p>AVK OΠΠEΛ CE-VH MAKPINOC (Autok[rater] Opel[ius] Seve[rus] Macrinus)</p><p>VΠ AΓPIΠΠA NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPO-CICTPΩ (Consular Legate, Agrippa, of Nikopolis, First city of CICTPΩ [I don't know how to translate that last part. Can you help?]</p><p><br /></p><p>Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Macrinus. A.D. 217-218. Æ (27 mm, 11.79 g, 12 h). Marcus Agrippa, consular legate. Laureate head of Macrinus right / City walls with closed gate and three towers. Hristova & Jekov 8.23.46.3; cf. Varbanov 3383. Brown patina. Lindgren II --. Lindgren III --. BMC Thrace --.</p><p><br /></p><p>Price and Trell, <i>Coins and their Cities</i>, is the book that discusses architectural types from the provinces and their conventions. One important artistic convention is that "above" often means "behind". So, here we see a gate and two towers at either side with a third tower, probably not in the middle, rather somewhere else on the wall, maybe even representative of additional towers on the far side of the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Price and Trell has 522 enlarged photographs, many in color, most of only the one side, of walls, temples, arches, and other architecturally related types, including some Roman imperial types. It also has a long list of all cites except Rome and all their architectural types. Many are photographed, but not all. This one is type 58. It is not photographed, but a very similar reverse type from Augusta Traiana is. The book is not concerned with obverses, so if a reverse type was issued by more than one ruler you will just see its reverse once.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you like provincial coins and architectural types, you need Price and Trell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3056197, member: 44316"]There are a number of architectural types from Nicopolis. This one came from the recent Triskeles auction associated with vcoins. [ATTACH=full]765673[/ATTACH] The auction image was much greener. With the coin in hand, I digitally altered the photo to look more like it really is, dark brown. AVK OΠΠEΛ CE-VH MAKPINOC (Autok[rater] Opel[ius] Seve[rus] Macrinus) VΠ AΓPIΠΠA NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPO-CICTPΩ (Consular Legate, Agrippa, of Nikopolis, First city of CICTPΩ [I don't know how to translate that last part. Can you help?] Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Macrinus. A.D. 217-218. Æ (27 mm, 11.79 g, 12 h). Marcus Agrippa, consular legate. Laureate head of Macrinus right / City walls with closed gate and three towers. Hristova & Jekov 8.23.46.3; cf. Varbanov 3383. Brown patina. Lindgren II --. Lindgren III --. BMC Thrace --. Price and Trell, [I]Coins and their Cities[/I], is the book that discusses architectural types from the provinces and their conventions. One important artistic convention is that "above" often means "behind". So, here we see a gate and two towers at either side with a third tower, probably not in the middle, rather somewhere else on the wall, maybe even representative of additional towers on the far side of the city. Price and Trell has 522 enlarged photographs, many in color, most of only the one side, of walls, temples, arches, and other architecturally related types, including some Roman imperial types. It also has a long list of all cites except Rome and all their architectural types. Many are photographed, but not all. This one is type 58. It is not photographed, but a very similar reverse type from Augusta Traiana is. The book is not concerned with obverses, so if a reverse type was issued by more than one ruler you will just see its reverse once. If you like provincial coins and architectural types, you need Price and Trell.[/QUOTE]
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