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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7858488, member: 87809&quot;]AR Denarius, Rome 200 AD</p><p>17 x 18 mm, 3.260 g</p><p>RIC IV Septimius Severus 150; Hill 444; Cohen 454;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: SEVERVS AVG PART MAX (Severus Augustus Parthicus Maximus = Severus Augustus great Parthian) Head of Septimius Severus, laureate, right</p><p>Rev.: P M TR P VIII COS II P P Victory, winged, draped, flying left, holding wreath in both hands over shield set on low base</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1354311[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1354312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Won this one at AMCC3 in a group of 9 provincial coins. It was fun researching it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Æ 16, Moesia Inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, 193 – 211 AD</p><p>10.16 g</p><p>Varbanov 2316; AMNG 1421; Mionnet Supp. II, 451 – 452; Pick, &quot;Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1&quot;, Berlin 1898 p. 386, Nr. 1425.2;</p><p>coin 17157, in: Corpus Nummorum, <a href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17157" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17157" rel="nofollow">https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17157</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΑV ΚΛI ϹΕVΗΡΟϹ laureate head of Septimius Severus, right</p><p>Rev.: ΝΙΚΟΠΟ(ΛΙ ΠΡΟC) ΙCΤΡ (issued by the people of Nikopolis at the river Ictros) upright torch</p><p><br /></p><p>AMNG and Mionnet describe the reverse as a club. AMNG plate XX, 41 shows the torch upside down. However, the flame at the top of the object tells us that this is a torch and not an oddly shaped club</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1354309[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1354310[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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