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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2972559, member: 19463"]Well, I'd really like to win a contest but since I own no as or dupondius and have an aversion to posting other people's photos, I'll start in the hole with a coin I doubt many people have. This thing cost me $5 a few years back (OK, before some here were born) but most people would not want it today which is good because I do. I was proud to have been able to ID it in the junk from which it came. The obverse reads M AVR AΛE ΞΑΝΔΡΟC and the reverse O ΔHCCEITΩ //N </p><p>[ATTACH=full]729505[/ATTACH] </p><p>Odessos, Thrace. AE15 / Alexander on horseback, 222 AD 2.0g</p><p>What make the coin interesting is what is not on it. The head is bare. There is no abbreviation for Severus. There is no title. We sometimes call these little coins assaria so I can try for the extra credit but the real interest in this little Provincial is that it was struck while Alexander was Caesar under Elagabalus. This nice coin was sold by Helios.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=814601" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=814601" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=814601</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2972559, member: 19463"]Well, I'd really like to win a contest but since I own no as or dupondius and have an aversion to posting other people's photos, I'll start in the hole with a coin I doubt many people have. This thing cost me $5 a few years back (OK, before some here were born) but most people would not want it today which is good because I do. I was proud to have been able to ID it in the junk from which it came. The obverse reads M AVR AΛE ΞΑΝΔΡΟC and the reverse O ΔHCCEITΩ //N [ATTACH=full]729505[/ATTACH] Odessos, Thrace. AE15 / Alexander on horseback, 222 AD 2.0g What make the coin interesting is what is not on it. The head is bare. There is no abbreviation for Severus. There is no title. We sometimes call these little coins assaria so I can try for the extra credit but the real interest in this little Provincial is that it was struck while Alexander was Caesar under Elagabalus. This nice coin was sold by Helios. [url]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=814601[/url][/QUOTE]
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