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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1688705, member: 42773&quot;]This is a recent acquisition spurred by my interest in Arabian coinage. It features Julia Mamaea on the obverse and Tyche on the reverse.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s24.postimg.org/7mljynw11/mamaea.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Avita Mamaea was a niece of Julia Domna and Septimius Severus, and mother of emperor Severus Alexander. Her relationship with her emperor son was of the creepy Oedipal type, if you will. Alexander held his mother in such high esteem that he named her <i>consors imperii </i>(imperial consort). But that&#039;s not all. From wiki...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s11.postimg.org/vp6m53m3n/mamaea2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually, momma&#039;s boy Alexander found a fitting end in his mother&#039;s arms...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This bronze was minted in Bostra (modern-day Bosra in Syria), just south of Damascus.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s12.postimg.org/9r7rstd5p/bostra3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are some spectacular Roman ruins in Bosra, particularly the amphitheater.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s22.postimg.org/bkr5jhzv5/bostra1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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