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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4543691, member: 19463&quot;]I have often posted the fact that the items highest on my want list are often coins that I did not previously know to exist.&nbsp; My new purchase is such a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the infamous &#039;Year of Five Emperors&#039; 193AD,&nbsp; Septimius Severus gave the title Caesar to Clodius Albinus to keep him out of the picture while Septimius dealt with Pescennius Niger.&nbsp; My coin is an AE25 of Pautalia, Thrace.&nbsp; It is the only type I have seen using the two portraits face to face but there is another specimen listed on acsearch to a 2004 Lanz sale.&nbsp; This coin is listed in Varbanov as number 4866 and appears to be a die duplicate of the acsearch/Lanz coin.&nbsp; Varbanov lists it as R8 suggesting he was aware of more than one other specimen.&nbsp; I found only the one.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=197347" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=197347" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=197347</a></p><p>I would appreciate hearing of any other matching coins or any other coins showing these two men face to face with a different reverse that you might have.&nbsp; acsearch shows some with an eagle.&nbsp; This reverse with serpent, tree and altar and a very similar one where the serpent&#039;s head is lowered over the altar are used at Pautalia on several specimens with the solo obverse portrait and inscription of Albinus.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1124966[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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