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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4295111, member: 57495"]Two rare and to my mind interesting provincials. One cost $28 and the other $708. Why the vast difference? IDK <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie21" alt=":bear:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... but that's our hobby for you! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093444[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CARACALLA</b></p><p>Unpublished and possibly second known. AE16. 2.62g, 16.4mm. THRACE, Trajanopolis, circa AD 198-217. Schönert-Geiss, Augusta Traiana –; Varbanov –; CNG 320, Lot 282. O: AVT K M AYP CE ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head right. R: TΡAIANOΠO-ΛEITΩN, Infant Herakles, kneeling right, strangling a serpent with each hand.</p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093445[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>VALERIAN</b></p><p>Rare. AE27. 13.98g, 27.3mm. PHOENICIA, Tyre, circa AD 253-260. Rouvier 2500. O: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: TVRIORVM, Cadmus standing left, holding patera and spear; at feet to left, cow reclining right; in left field, city gate of Thebes above ΘH/BЄ; murex shell to right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4295111, member: 57495"]Two rare and to my mind interesting provincials. One cost $28 and the other $708. Why the vast difference? IDK :bear:... but that's our hobby for you! [ATTACH=full]1093444[/ATTACH] [B]CARACALLA[/B] Unpublished and possibly second known. AE16. 2.62g, 16.4mm. THRACE, Trajanopolis, circa AD 198-217. Schönert-Geiss, Augusta Traiana –; Varbanov –; CNG 320, Lot 282. O: AVT K M AYP CE ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head right. R: TΡAIANOΠO-ΛEITΩN, Infant Herakles, kneeling right, strangling a serpent with each hand. [ATTACH=full]1093445[/ATTACH] [B]VALERIAN[/B] Rare. AE27. 13.98g, 27.3mm. PHOENICIA, Tyre, circa AD 253-260. Rouvier 2500. O: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: TVRIORVM, Cadmus standing left, holding patera and spear; at feet to left, cow reclining right; in left field, city gate of Thebes above ΘH/BЄ; murex shell to right.[/QUOTE]
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