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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7927971, member: 110350&quot;]An amazing coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Poppy:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian AR Denarius 134-138 AD.&nbsp; Obv. Bare head right, HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P/ Rev. Four grain ears in modius with one poppy in middle, ANNO-NA AVG. Old RIC II 230 (1926 ed.), RSC II 172. 18 mm., 3.2 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370271[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Caduceus (with Mercury/Hermes or snake):</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Mamilius Limetanus, AR Serrate Denarius, 82 BCE Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing petasus with two wings, caduceus over left shoulder, control letter “F” behind* / Rev. Ulysses walking right, wearing mariner’s clothing and pileus, holding staff in left hand and extending right hand towards his dog, Argus, who stands left at Ulysses’ feet with his head raised towards him; C•MAMIL downwards in left field, LIMETAN [TA ligate] upwards in right field. Crawford 362/1. RSC I Mamilia 6, Sear RCV I 282 (ill.), BMCRR 2717 and 2720-2721 [two examples of control letter “F”]. 21 mm., 4.04 g., 9 h. [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370272[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 3 (118/119 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, drapery on left shoulder, AYT KAIC TPAIANOC -AΔΡΙΑNOC ϹƐΒ (clockwise from 5:00) / Rev. Serpent Agathodaemon standing erect right, crowned with pschent/skhent [the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt] , tongue protruding, with coils enfolding caduceus to left and stalks of corn to right; L - Γ (Year 3) across fields. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5149 (2015); RPC III Online at&nbsp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149</a>; Emmett 803.3; BMC 16 Alexandria 665 (at p. 79) (1892) [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 2]; K&amp;G 32.68 (at p. 118); Dattari (Savio) 1541; Milne 918 [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 13]; Geissen 764 [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 18]. 24 mm., 13.81 g., 12 h. <i>Purchased from </i><a href="http://www.cgb.fr/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/" rel="nofollow"><i>http://www.cgb.fr</i></a><i> July 2021, ex. Collection of Aymé Cornu (1926-2020) (Engineer. - Head of the mass spectrometry laboratory at the Center for Nuclear Studies in Grenoble, France; see </i><a href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/).*" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/).*" rel="nofollow"><i>https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/)</i>.*</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370274[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*The serpent Agathodaemon or Agathos Daimon -- translated variously as good spirit, noble spirit, or good genius -- was sacred to Serapis, and was worshipped in every Egyptian town. “On the coins he is always represented erect, and usually wearing the skhent, in the midst of corn and poppies, generally with a caduceus, also rising from the ground.”&nbsp; BMC 16 Alexandria, p. lxxxvi. . . . The rod enfolded in the Agathodaemon, despite its absence of wings, appears clearly to be a caduceus (Greek kerykaion) -- i.e., two snakes wrapped around a staff -- rather than the single snake associated with the rod or staff of Asclepius. [Rest of footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus Augustus and Diadumenian Caesar, AE Pentassarion [5 Assaria], 217-218 AD, Marcianopolis Mint, Moesia Inferior [now Devnya, Bulgaria] (Pontianus, consular legate). Obv. Confronted heads of Macrinus, laureate, right, and Diadumenian, bareheaded, left, [AVT K OΠE]Λ CEV MAKPEINOC K M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC [<i>bracketed portion off flan</i>][ = <i>Imperator, Caesar, Opellius Augustus Macrinus, Caesar Marcus Opellius Antoninus </i>] / Rev. Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in extended right hand and caduceus in left hand; chlamys hanging over left arm; E [mark of value for “5”] in right field, VΠ Macrinus ΠONTIANOV MAP-KIANOΠOΛEITΩN (ΩN ligate) [ = <i>Consular Legate Pontianus, (coin) of the people of Markianopolis</i>].&nbsp; AMNG I/I 740 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I</i>&nbsp; (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 240-241]; BMC 3 Thrace 35 [R.S. Poole, ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. </i>(London, 1877) at p. 32]; Hristova &amp; Jekov 6.24.10.3 [Nina Hristova &amp; Gospodin Jekov, <i>The Local Coinage of the Roman Empire - Moesia Inferior, I - III c. A.D., MARCIANOPOLIS </i> (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 2006)]; Varbanov (Eng.) Vol. I, 1192 <i>var</i>. (E to left) [Ivan Varbanov, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume I: Dacia, Moesia Superior &amp; Moesia Inferior</i> (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2005)]; Diadumenian.com /marcianopolis5.html, No. Mar5.33d.&nbsp; 25 mm, 12.89 g. <i>Purchased from Kirk Davis, Cat # 75, Fall 2020, Lot 62; ex.: Dr. Paul Rynearson (ca. 2003).</i> (Coin is double die match to Lot 696, CNG Triton XII Auction, Jan. 5, 2009.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370275[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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