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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3362251, member: 56859"]Nice Asklepios! Here are two later period Roman Egyptian coin whose reverse is exceptionally artistic for the time. Claudius II has several dies which are, to my eyes, much more artistic than the surrounding decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful and wonderfully detailed Tyche; crude obverse. I should reshoot this.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/alextetclaudiusiiyr3-900w-jpg.354341/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Claudius II tetradrachm, year 3, /Tyche standing left; Emmett 3896</p><p><br /></p><p>A better obverse of Claudius Gothicus (also needs a reshoot; lighting is too oblique).</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/claudiusiieaglealextete3878-1-r1-jpg.354340/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Claudius II tetradrachm year 1, /eagle; Emmett 3878</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited: I reshot this Claudius/eagle this afternoon. He looks less sinister without the steeply oblique lighting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]891586[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Alexandrian Domitian is very artistic, both sides.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian</b></p><p>Regnal year 10, CE 90/91</p><p>Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h)</p><p>Obv: AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right</p><p>Rev: Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below</p><p>Ref: Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5).</p><p><b>Provenance:</b></p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110</i></p><p><i>Ex Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 31</i></p><p><i>Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365</i></p><p><b>Appearances:</b></p><p>Staffieri, <i>Alexandria In Nummis</i> 39 (this coin)</p><p>Emmett, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i>; obverse illustrated as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (this coin) and fully illustrated on p. 26 as a featured (this coin)</p><p>Sear, <i>Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol. I</i>, #2868, p. 511 (this coin)</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3362251, member: 56859"]Nice Asklepios! Here are two later period Roman Egyptian coin whose reverse is exceptionally artistic for the time. Claudius II has several dies which are, to my eyes, much more artistic than the surrounding decades. Beautiful and wonderfully detailed Tyche; crude obverse. I should reshoot this. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/alextetclaudiusiiyr3-900w-jpg.354341/[/IMG] Claudius II tetradrachm, year 3, /Tyche standing left; Emmett 3896 A better obverse of Claudius Gothicus (also needs a reshoot; lighting is too oblique). [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/claudiusiieaglealextete3878-1-r1-jpg.354340/[/IMG] Claudius II tetradrachm year 1, /eagle; Emmett 3878 Edited: I reshot this Claudius/eagle this afternoon. He looks less sinister without the steeply oblique lighting :D [ATTACH=full]891586[/ATTACH] This Alexandrian Domitian is very artistic, both sides. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/[/IMG] [B]EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian[/B] Regnal year 10, CE 90/91 Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h) Obv: AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right Rev: Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below Ref: Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5). [B]Provenance:[/B] [I]Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110 Ex Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 31 Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365[/I] [B]Appearances:[/B] Staffieri, [I]Alexandria In Nummis[/I] 39 (this coin) Emmett, [I]Alexandrian Coins[/I]; obverse illustrated as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (this coin) and fully illustrated on p. 26 as a featured (this coin) Sear, [I]Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol. I[/I], #2868, p. 511 (this coin) [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/[/url][/QUOTE]
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