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<p>[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 4352441, member: 75641"]Great write up, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]. Most of the appeal in collecting both ancients in general and provincial coins in particular is the unraveling of the stories associated with each coin. I’ve learned more about ancient cultures and mythology from my coins than I have from any class on the subject. Certainly there are some questions for which we may never know the answer, i.e., were the motifs on the coins a brand of propaganda pushed by the state or were they representative of commonly held beliefs and simply recognized on coins? But the understanding of the coins and the discussions about those questions are moved forward by prompting further work by us amateur scholars. </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the coins of Moesia Inferior, you see so many of the same types such as the tripod, snake, snake and tripod, Cybele, Homonia, Tyche, etc., across many issuing cities, I would be hard pressed to think that these ideas and beliefs were not widely held.</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1101401[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Provincial, Pautalia, Thrace, AE18, ΟνΑ ΠΙΑC ΠΑνΤΑΛΙ</b></p><p>AE18</p><p>Roman Provincial: Pautalia, Thrace</p><p>Septimius Severus</p><p>Augustus: 193 - 211AD</p><p>Issued: ?</p><p>18.0mm 3.85gr 8h</p><p>O: AνΚ Α CεΠ CενΗΡΟC; Laureate head, right.</p><p>R: ΟνΑ ΠΙΑC ΠΑνΤΑΛΙ; Tripod, snake coiled around center leg.</p><p>Pautalia, Thrace Mint</p><p>Varbanov 4827</p><p>Savoca Auctions 15th Blue Auction, Lot 989[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 4352441, member: 75641"]Great write up, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]. Most of the appeal in collecting both ancients in general and provincial coins in particular is the unraveling of the stories associated with each coin. I’ve learned more about ancient cultures and mythology from my coins than I have from any class on the subject. Certainly there are some questions for which we may never know the answer, i.e., were the motifs on the coins a brand of propaganda pushed by the state or were they representative of commonly held beliefs and simply recognized on coins? But the understanding of the coins and the discussions about those questions are moved forward by prompting further work by us amateur scholars. Looking at the coins of Moesia Inferior, you see so many of the same types such as the tripod, snake, snake and tripod, Cybele, Homonia, Tyche, etc., across many issuing cities, I would be hard pressed to think that these ideas and beliefs were not widely held. [ATTACH=full]1101401[/ATTACH] [B]Provincial, Pautalia, Thrace, AE18, ΟνΑ ΠΙΑC ΠΑνΤΑΛΙ[/B] AE18 Roman Provincial: Pautalia, Thrace Septimius Severus Augustus: 193 - 211AD Issued: ? 18.0mm 3.85gr 8h O: AνΚ Α CεΠ CενΗΡΟC; Laureate head, right. R: ΟνΑ ΠΙΑC ΠΑνΤΑΛΙ; Tripod, snake coiled around center leg. Pautalia, Thrace Mint Varbanov 4827 Savoca Auctions 15th Blue Auction, Lot 989[/QUOTE]
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