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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1809220, member: 42773&quot;]I’ll be filing this one away in my already brimming drawer of ugly, decrepit, and obscure coins nobody else loves. But I consider it a junk bin cherrypick since the pieces are seemingly very scarce, and examples in even slightly higher grades can run you hundreds of dollars. The only reference I have for this piece is BMC Arabia - Mesopotamia - Persia, in which Hill briefly discusses a few types from Rhesaena. His plate coin doesn’t look much better than mine, but it does have the advantage of stronger legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know of one other catalog, The Coinage of Rhesaena in Mesopotamia, by Karel O. Castelin, and since it was published in 1946, I imagine the book is in the public domain by now, but I can’t find any copies for sale or download. If anyone can help, I’d be much obliged.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I’m not sure a detailed reference would do much good to narrow down the variety, considering the poor state of the legends. I’ll post what information I was able to find after a little while.</p><p><br /></p><p>Severus Alexander</p><p>AE26, 11.1g; Rhesaena, 222-235</p><p>Obv.: Laureate and draped bust left, holding shield</p><p>Rev.: Tyche seated left on rock, holding eagle in right hand, left hand set on rocks, river-god swimming left below</p><p>BMC Rhesaena 1, cf. Castelin 30 (?)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s23.postimg.org/50z7zooff/rhesaena.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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