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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8211164, member: 87809&quot;]First coin I purchased myself (not in my dad&#039;s collection) in 2018 was this Semis issued by Marcus Postumius Albinus and Lucius Porcius Capito(linus) as duumviri quinquennales, magistrates in charge of the colony. It caught my eye because at that time I was (and still am) organizing my dad&#039;s collection and there was an empty envelope for an As of these two magistrates. The coin was probably&nbsp; lost somewhere/somehow while moving the collection from one place to another and then moving it across the Atlantic from one country to another. Well, bad things happen when one moves... Luckily I found this replacement. Overall two coins were missing, the other one, a Hadrian - Fortuna, I was also able to replace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cartago Nova, Hispania Tarraconensis, 4 BC, 15th emission</p><p>21 x 23 mm, 5.892 g</p><p>RPC1 171/15; SNG Copenhagen 496; Burgos 438;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: AVGVSTVS DIVI F laureate head of Augustus r.</p><p>Rev.: M•POSTVM•ALBIN•L•PORC•CAPIT•π•VIR• Q&nbsp; Priest standing facing holding simpulum and olive branch</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440629[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1440630[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my&nbsp; recent one, which I won this week at the CNG auction.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After reading all of [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]&#039;s great posts about Macedonian helmets, and realizing that I didn&#039;t have a helmet coin, I had to fight for this one<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Don&#039;t have it yet. Picture is courtesy of CNG:</p><p><br /></p><p>Uncertain mint in Macedon; anonymous issue after 311 BC, ca. 325 – 310 BC</p><p>17 mm, 4.39 g</p><p><br /></p><p>Price 416a; Liampi 41-50; SNG Sweden 1109; Pozzi 2029; SNG Copenhagen 1119; listed by Hoover under the heading of Alexander IV as HGC 3.1, 956</p><p>CNG lists it as from the time of Alexander III to Kassander.</p><p><br /></p><p>The royal title Basileos, which was abbreviated as BA on anonymous coins, starts at the beginning of the 3rd century BC</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Anepigraphic; Round Macedonian shield with thunderbolt on boss surrounded by five crescents or smaller shields, thunderbolts between each of them;</p><p>Rev.: Macedonian helmet without ear-flaps, decorated with laurel wreath, thunderbolt below. B-A across field</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440646[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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