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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3362251, member: 56859&quot;]Nice Asklepios!&nbsp; Here are two later period Roman Egyptian coin whose reverse is exceptionally artistic for the time.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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:&nbsp; I reshot this Claudius/eagle this afternoon.&nbsp; 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&amp;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>

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