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Message:: [QUOTE="PeteB, post: 7816951, member: 99412"]Let me further possibly confuse the issue. I used to have the coin below that was apparently unique at the time. Here we see the winged figure leaning on a column and extending downward a torch fashioned from what appears to be a tree limb!! So, question #1, on the versions above is the figure really leaning on a torch to extinguish it?....or: Question #2: Most important to my musings, is the figure extinguishing a flaming torch or IGNITING IT from a flaming altar or some other fire source?? The later would make much more sense as a depiction of perhaps "good times to come," etc. to the Roman people!....rather that death.[ATTACH=full]1343524[/ATTACH] My previous opinion: Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum.  Æ (17mm, 2.46 gm, 1h). Obv: AV KAI CEVH(POC?). Laureate head right. Rev: NIKOΠOΛITΩΝ ΠPOC (ICTPO, in ex.?), Winged Genius (Eros?) standing right, leaning on column and resting inverted torch (on altar?). Torch fashioned from a tree limb...quite unusual. Unpublished and possibly unique per an author of HH&J. To be included in a new addenda to Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov.[/QUOTE]