Plautilla of Marcianopolis -- single pair of dies?

I first posted about this coin a couple of years ago and have since learned a bit more about it. I have since found some references for the coin -- so it's not "unpublished" -- and have found five additional examples of it, all of which were produced from a single die-pair. This makes me wonder if the coin itself was produced from but a single pair of dies.

Does anyone have Varbanov, Hristova & Jekov, or H-J Pfeiffer (Die römischen Münzen aus Markianopolis: Sammlung H.-J. Pfeiffer)? If so, would you be so kind as to post photos of the plate coins so I can see if they are also die matches?

If anyone knows of other examples online, I'd love to see them.

Please feel free to comment, post your Plautilla provincials or anything you feel is relevant!


Plautilla, AD 202-205
Roman provincial Æ 9.92 g, 26.2 mm, 8 h.
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, Lucius Aurelius Gallus, legatus consularis, AD 202-203.
Obv: ΦΟVΛ ΠΛΑVΤΙΛΛΑ CЄΒ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: V ΑV ΓΑΛΛΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, Tyche standing r., holding rudder and cornucopiae.
Refs: Varbanov 1088; Hristova & Jekov (2007 a) 6.218.38.1.; H.J. Pfeiffer 137 ff; Pick --; SNG Copenhagen --; BMC Thrace --; Mionnet Supp II --; Moushmov --; Wiczay --; Lindgren II --; Lindgren III --.

Die matches to:


Lanz, Auction 114, lot 512, May 26, 2003.



Helios, Auction 6, lot 579, March 9, 2011.



Gerhard Hirsch, Auction 289, lot 900, May 2, 2013.



Naumann, Auction 60, lot 267, December 3, 2017.



Specimen at Wildwinds.

 

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looks like it to me RC..maybe @TIF will do her magic of superimposing on them to clarify..

 

I don't think RC was questioning the die matches for all of the coins he posted (they are all from the same obverse and reverse dies)-- he was asking if any of us had yet another example so he could see if there are others out there, also of the same dies. At this rate it would be notable if a new coin was struck from a different die!

 

Exactly! All six coins are from the same dies. I'm wondering if there are any out there that are NOT from these dies.

Does anyone have Varbanov, H&J or Pfeiffer? Would you be so kind as to post the plate coins? Thanks!

 

o..ok

 

Here's the Varbanov plate coin, also struck from the same die pair. It's not unusual for limited-run provincials to come from one set of dies.

 

I'm not surprised. Thank you so much!

 

Aaaaah Plautilla !
Dear Plautilla !



(Hope Caracalla isn't around though.....)

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