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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 3391388, member: 77226&quot;]I really like coins depicting architecture... sometimes even if they&#039;re in rough shape. I recently bought this coin and have found that it seems to be quite rare. The only other example I&#039;ve been able to find online (so far) is one on Wildwinds.</p><p><br /></p><p>My coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]900890[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Wildwinds coin with the following attribution:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]900891[/ATTACH]</p><p><i><font size="3">Philip I, AE28 of Nicomedia, Bithynia. AD 244-249.</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">(dot)M(dot)I(dot)OLIOC(dot)FILIPPOC AYG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">NIKOMHDEWN DIC NEWKORWN, two octostyle temples.</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">SNG von Aulock 834; Yapi Kredi 125.</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t been able to fully research the coin yet... so rather than this being a writeup on the coin, this is probably a bit of crowdsourcing answers and a bit ongoing commentary on what I find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Questions:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>Does anyone have any idea exactly which temples are depicted here and why?</li> <li>How do we know this is Philip rather than Philip II? I know this is a question with many provincial coins of this father and son duo. They have the same legends in many cases, is there anything that points to the father rather than son? (although I do think it is P-1 depicted here)</li> <li>Look at the coin below from Koinon Macedonia. My coin and this coin are close in mint date... and clearly one must have been inspired by the other (same text layout, same temples..). Do they depict the same temples, or are they generic temples? Were these temples important regionally, so much so that they may be depicted on coins of different cities?</li> <li>Also pictured below is another coin of Julia Domina from Nicomedia with two temples... these look to be the same two temples... more research needed.</li> </ol><p>(Question 3 coin)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]901064[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Question 4 coin)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]901065[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anyway, those are the questions I have yet to answer. If you&#039;d like to jump in with answers, awesome! If not, I&#039;ll be following up with what I find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to pile on with anything relevant. Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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