Septimius Severus (a liitle help please)

This coin is 27mm and weighs 12.16 grams
I believe it is from Nikopolis in Moesia Inferior
I'm pretty sure that is Herakles with his club but I'm not sure about the legends. Any assist would be nice.

 

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Beautiful coin! The obverse inscription is AV A CEΠTI CEVHPOS. On the reverse I see NIKOΠOΛITΩN, so definitely Nikopolis. I suppose I've got to look it up now.

 

The reverse reads VΠ AV ΓAΛΛOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN counterclockwise from 7.
ΠPOS I is in exergue. Varbanov 2613. Herakles is holding a lion skin also.

 

So it is Latin? It's greek,

 

This is the only coin I've won on a FORVM ancients auction.

 

Greek language, Greek spelling, but some Roman letters get mixed into the provincials, ie. C instead of Σ.

 

It's a very nice example of the type.

 

Thanks for the assist! I love this coin.

 

Wow!! => that coin "rocks" ... very, very cool

=> yah, I'm a huge fan of coins with Herakles & club ... or really anything to do with Herakles and/or clubs!! (great addition)

 

Hey JBG, after thumbing-through my collection I discovered that I have a cool addition from around the same time, same place ... enjoy, my friend ...

Plautilla, AE-26. Nicopolis, Moesia
Augusta AD 202 – 205
13.33g. 26mm.
Obverse: Plautilla, the wife of Caracalla (Her draped bust right)
Reverse: Eagle standing front on globe, head right, wreath in beak
Reference: Moushmoff 1159; Pick 1636; Varbanov 3174



Oh, and this is also an Ancient-Coin-Trivia-Flashback!!

=> this was the last coin that I posted and apparently the final-straw that got me kicked-out of the CCF (I posted this coin and a photo of Marvin, from the Simpsons, picking his nose) ...




... a dangerous combination, my friends!!

 

Marvin is so cool! And the coin is excellent.

 

Are you sure it was Marvin?


Or was it the goat?

 

Ahahah (*whateva*) => you and your urban legends ... Bing, how quickly you forget the "real" story ... brutal dude, you were there!! (front-line)

Sure, everybody knows that I got kicked-out for posting that good ol' PAN f-ing the goat statue (ummm, actually a classic work of art!!) ... but after that month-suspension, I was let back-in the mix ...

Then there was a series of me being kicked-out for not following the "photo posting rules" ...... they told me that my photos were too large and that I should use photo-bucket (remember?)

... so I tried to use photobucket (epic fail) and was again, reprimanded for photos ... and eventually, I was merely kicked-out because I didn't have the computer skills to make my photos "smaller" (and Marvin was the final straw, where the guy decided I was trying to buck the system) ...

... good enough (it brings me back to a bad time, where dudes were trying to show their power over an innocent ancient coin-dude, with zero computer skills) ...

amazingly, you and Doug pointed me towards "cointalk" and I've never looked back ....

I act exactly the same on this sweet coin site, but for whatever reason this site seems to kinda like me, rather than accuse me of being a threat to the youngins' and/or some sort of degenerate!!?

 

Great tale of disgrace and redemption! PLEASE post the real goat pic? No don't...you never know when the culture police will strike.

 

I think not. It is a classic piece of art, but why take the chance. I'm sorry I brought up bad memories little brother. Just don't eat the boogers!

 

If "booger eating"doesn't trip some alarm I wonder what will? I have an urge to sign up on CCF to see how fast I can get booted.

These last few posts have made my day! Good work gents!!

 

We had an entire thread of Priapus coins going and they didn't kick us out. I think the mods just shake their heads at us and click elsewhere.

 

Emporer PENVS MAGNVS

 

Good looking coins, I have a weakness for large size coins.

Steve I don't think anyone knew how to post pics on CCF. It either was too big or it never appears lol.

 

i dig the big coins, that one is very attractive JBG, worn but nice color and still some detials....sweet.