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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3078856, member: 75525&quot;]Nice coin Ken!</p><p>I was watching a C. Vibius Varus Denarius, Hercules / Minerva Cr, 494/37. Made a place holding bid, and then went to lunch with my wife. I logged in a bit too late to bid live and did not get the bearded wonder coin. Guess you could say I was out to lunch on this coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]774915[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had some spare change to burn and went out of my normal collecting area to buy: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]774920[/ATTACH] </p><p>I know little about these, but the standards caught my eye. I hope they are not too tooled.</p><p><b>Severus Alexander AE Nicaea Bithynia standards</b></p><p>ROMAN, Provincial; Nicaea in Bithynia Æ</p><p>Obv - Severus Alexander, 222 - 235 AD</p><p>Rev - three signa and/or Aquila</p><p>Lot of five (5)</p><p>Average VF, with patinas, a few with cleaning and/or smoothing marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the auction, I&nbsp; did a bit of looking and saw several Roman Provencal coins with standards. I may be back for some help IDing the coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nicaea A celebrated city of Asia, situated on the eastern side of Lake Ascania (Isnik) in Bithynia, built (about B.C. 300) by Antigonus, king of Asia, and originally called Antigonea; but Lysimachus soon after changed the name into Nicaea, in honour of his wife. Under the kings of Bithynia it was often the royal residence; and under the Romans it continued to be one of the chief cities of Asia; and at the time of the Byzantine emperors it was a great military outpost of Constantinople against the Turks. It fell in A.D. 1330, being taken by the Turk Orchan, the son of Ottoman. The great double walls of the ancient city still exist, and there are ruins of an aqueduct, a theatre, a gymnasium, and the two moles of the ancient harbour. </p><p><a href="https://www.bible-history.com/maps/romanempire/Nicaea.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bible-history.com/maps/romanempire/Nicaea.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bible-history.com/maps/romanempire/Nicaea.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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