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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8322144, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s a lovely hekte, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], and an entertaining and educational write-up. It&#039;s only missing several risque <a href="https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-very-victorian-nymphs-of-j-w-waterhouse/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-very-victorian-nymphs-of-j-w-waterhouse/" rel="nofollow">works of art by J. William Waterhouse</a>, who was into painting nekkid Victorian women and making the whole enterprise &quot;respectable&quot; by setting them in quasi-classical contexts and calling them nymphs. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have two sets of three nymphs, though nobody knows the exact identity of these nymphs. They are probably nymphs of local water sources.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lucius-verus-augusta-traiana-three-nymphs-jpg.1399606/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Lucius Verus, AD 161-169.</p><p>Roman Provincial Æ assarion, 4.23 g, 18 mm.</p><p>Thrace, Augusta Traiana, AD 161-169.</p><p>Obv: ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑV-ΡΗ ΟVΗΡΟϹ, bare head, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑV-Γ-ΟV-ϹΤΗϹ | ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗϹ, three nymphs, stolate, standing facing, arms draped on each other&#039;s shoulders and holding unknown objects (thymiatera? tripods?) at sides. </p><p>Refs: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10343" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10343" rel="nofollow">RPC IV 10343 (temporary)</a>; Schonert-Geiss 89; Varbanov II 909; Moushmov (1912) --; Moushmov Online 2987A; Staal, pl. 2, fig. 12.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474343[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ triassarion, 24 mm, 7.77 g.</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, AD 193-211.</p><p>Obv: IOVΛIA ΔO-MNA CEB, bare-headed and draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, three nymphs standing facing, wearing tunics over long, lightly billowing skirts and clasping hands, the two outer nymphs with heads turned inwards and each holding a jug in her free hand.</p><p>Refs: Varbanov 892 var (obv. legend); Staal 89.15 (plate 3, fig. 15, p. 157); BMC --; Moushmov --; SGI --; AMNG I (Pick) --; Lindgren --; Winsemann --.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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