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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 25729552, member: 103829&quot;]The coin I would like to present here is probably the rarest from Nicopolis. Nina Hristova has written: „Gospodin and I are very happy to know that you have the rarest coin of Nikopolis! Gospodin said, that he never think to see ths coin! Nicopolis must be updated specially for thie new Haimos!&nbsp; Nina“</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1643964[/ATTACH] </p><p>Moesia inferior, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Macrinus, AD 217-218</p><p>AE 28, 11.12g, 27.87mm, 195°</p><p>struck under governor Marcus Claudius Agrippa</p><p>Obv.: AVT K OΠΠEΛ C-EVH MA[KPINOC]</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r. </p><p>Rev.: VΠ AΓPIΠΠA NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOC I / CTPΩ</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Naked youth (mountain god Haimos), wearing only a light robe over his right&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; shoulder and knees, with boots, sitting right on a rock and looking left, the right </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; arm with a hunting speer resting on a tree behind him; his left hand above his </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; head </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; in the right field AIMOC</p><p>Ref.: a) AMNG I/1, 1700, Pl. III, 24 (1 ex., Bassarabescu)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; b) Moushmov 1295, pl. XI, 33 </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; c) not in Varbanov. Varbanov lists 2 other types:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; #3390 AVT K M OPEL CEV, without spear, and</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; #3391 AVT K OPELL CEVH, with spear, bust bust laureate</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; d) Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2020) 8.23.43,4 (this coin)</p><p>unique, F+, dark green patina</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: Nicolae Bassarabescu was director of the journal &quot;Poporul&quot;, 1890, in Bukarest/Romania, and a known collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only coin on which the mountain god sits to the right rather than to the left. But the special thing about this coin is its history too!&nbsp; A glance at the pictures in Pick, Moushmov, Varbanov and Hristova/Jekov shows that they all depict the same coin! But since Pick had the coin of Bassarabescu in his hand, all the others were copied from him. So there was only 1 copy of this coin, namely that of Bassarabescu! A spear cannot be seen in these pictures. But Curtis Clay thinks that there must have been a spear, otherwise Pick would not have described it. According to Varbanov, there are 3 different types, which I think is questionable</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1643966[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After Pick described this coin in 1898, it disappeared in the confusion of time. Now, after 116 years, a second specimen has turned up. It is nothing short of a miracle and it is not without reason that it has a place of honour among the coins of Nicopolis ad Istrum!</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind regards</p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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