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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2444406, member: 56859"]Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder, Noob and Doug!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's Orontes in his curtain call, on tatty little bronzes from the Byzantine emperor Justin I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/justini-sb111-2-jpg.454185/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/justini-sb111-1-jpg.454186/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Justin I </b></p><p>CE 518-527</p><p>AE Pentanummium, Antioch. Diameter of each is ~13 mm.</p><p>Obv: DN IVSTINVS PP AV; pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: Tyche of Antioch, turreted, seated left within columned shrine with half submerged figure of river-god Orontes swimming at her feet; retrograde epsilon to left</p><p>Ref: SB 111, DOC 57</p><p><br /></p><p>and a few centuries earlier on a provincial from Edessa:</p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_2f410da0b55747ed8770822c3beb70c6.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_522,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_2f410da0b55747ed8770822c3beb70c6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa</b></p><p><b>Elagabalus, CE 218-222</b></p><p>AE27, 15 gm</p><p>Obv: AVT K M A ANTΩNEINOC; radiate cuirassed bust left, holding shield and raising right hand.</p><p>Rev: AVP ........ EΔECCA; Tyche seated left on rock, holding corn ears; to left a column surmounted by a statue of Marsyas, river god swimming right at feet</p><p>Ref: Mionnet supplement 8, 26. Rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2444406, member: 56859"]Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder, Noob and Doug! Here's Orontes in his curtain call, on tatty little bronzes from the Byzantine emperor Justin I :) [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/justini-sb111-2-jpg.454185/[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/justini-sb111-1-jpg.454186/[/IMG] [B]Justin I [/B] CE 518-527 AE Pentanummium, Antioch. Diameter of each is ~13 mm. Obv: DN IVSTINVS PP AV; pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev: Tyche of Antioch, turreted, seated left within columned shrine with half submerged figure of river-god Orontes swimming at her feet; retrograde epsilon to left Ref: SB 111, DOC 57 and a few centuries earlier on a provincial from Edessa: [IMG]https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_2f410da0b55747ed8770822c3beb70c6.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_522,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_2f410da0b55747ed8770822c3beb70c6.jpg[/IMG] [B]MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa Elagabalus, CE 218-222[/B] AE27, 15 gm Obv: AVT K M A ANTΩNEINOC; radiate cuirassed bust left, holding shield and raising right hand. Rev: AVP ........ EΔECCA; Tyche seated left on rock, holding corn ears; to left a column surmounted by a statue of Marsyas, river god swimming right at feet Ref: Mionnet supplement 8, 26. Rare.[/QUOTE]
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