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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2394091, member: 57495&quot;]Nice idea for a thread.&nbsp; My provincials are some of my favorite coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost always the interesting reverses that draw me to them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Three Graces:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]492150[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE25</p><p>7.69g, 25mm</p><p>MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis, circa 177 - 192 AD</p><p>Hristova &amp; Jekov 6.10.26.4 (this coin illustrated); RPC IV online 4319; Varbanov 702 corr. (direction of heads).</p><p>O: ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟС, Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right. </p><p>R: ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛƐΙΤΩΝ, the Three Graces standing facing, heads left, right, and right, respectively: the left holds amphora over dolphin, the center drapes arms over others, and the right holds wreath over amphora.</p><p><i>Ex Dr. George Spradling Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex Alexandre de Barros Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Dido overseeing the building of Carthage:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]492151[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ELAGABALUS</b></p><p>AE28</p><p>12.6g, 28mm</p><p>TYRE, Phoenicia, circa AD 218-222</p><p>Rouvier 2375; BMC 409; Price &amp; Trell 748 (for rev. type)</p><p>O: [IMP CAES] M AV ANTONIN[VS AVG], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>R: [TVRIORVM], Dido overseeing the building of Carthage; she stands on the right, holding a rule and a transverse sceptre, facing left towards an arched city gate flanked by two towers, palm tree to her right; above the gate a mason works; below, a worker digs with a pick, legend [∆ƐI-∆Ω] to his left and right; murex shell in upper field. </p><p><i>Ex TIF Collection (woot!)</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Unusual agonistic personification, <i>Synthysia</i>:</b></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]492152[/ATTACH]</i></p><p><b>MAXIMINUS THRAX</b></p><p>AE Hexassarion</p><p>20.44g, 38mm</p><p>CILICIA, Anazarbus, 235 - 238 AD.</p><p>Ziegler 663 (Vs2/Rs4; 2 ex.), SNG Levante 1480 (same obv. die).</p><p>O: AY K G IOY OYH MAZIMEINOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>R: ANAZ END MHTRO B-G CYNQYCIA OI KOYMENHC, (ME and NH ligate), female figure (<i>Synthysia</i>), holding bipennis over shoulder, standing left before bull standing left.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Pastoral/mythological type with horse and herdsman:</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]492153[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><b>SEVERUS ALEXANDER</b></b></p><p>AE24</p><p>6.97g, 24.6mm</p><p>TROAS, Alexandria Troas, 222-235 AD</p><p>cf. Bellinger A341 (obv) &amp; A338 (rev), possibly unrecorded with this obverse and reverse combination.</p><p>O: IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust left, holding spear &amp; shield decorated with head of Medusa.</p><p>R: COL AVG, horse grazing right, herdsman (Ordes?) behind holding pedum (shepherd&#039;s crook), tree to left, TROAC in ex.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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