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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4300349, member: 19463&quot;]Sorry, I have nothing new.&nbsp; All my coins are like sporting events on TV: reruns.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the citizens of the cities that held status as full colonies would not appreciate our calling their Latin language coins Provincials rather than Colonials.</p><p>Caracalla Alexandria Troas</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1094430[/ATTACH] </p><p>Macrinus Laodicea</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1094432[/ATTACH] </p><p>Severus Alexander Antioch, Pisidia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1094433[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting how it turned out that being sacked was the best thing that ever happened to a city while being on the wrong side against Septimius did not go so well for Antioch ad Orontes.&nbsp; We need to remind everyone that there were several cities named Antioch.&nbsp; The Colonial above was not from Syrian Antioch but from the city in Pisidia. </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite wolf is still this Maximinus AE31 of Ninica Claudiopolis Colonial - I bought it as a Maximus but the seller was fooled by the way the obverse legend ran out of room and was continued in a second row on the right MAXI/MINVS.&nbsp; Many of these have countermarks that make this one not too bad for its peer group.&nbsp; I like countermarks but it is best when they are kept off the important details like the portrait.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1094434[/ATTACH] </p><p>Is that a second strike of the star c/m centered on the eye.&nbsp; I also find it interesting that the Wildwinds coin of this type that reads Maximus uses this same portrait while the city had other dies that showed him as a child.&nbsp; This would be a subject for further study.&nbsp; There are a lot of those I will never get around to doing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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