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  1. PeteB
    This is apparently an idealized portrait...but cute:
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    Diadumenian. As Caesar, 217-218 AD. MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Æ (27mm, 14.38 gm, 1h). Marcus Claudius Agrippa, consular legate. Obv: Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Rev: River-god Istrus reclining left, resting hand on galley and holding reeds. H&J, Nicopolis 8.25.32.3; Varbanov 3645 corr. (obv. and rev. legends).
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    Antoninus Pius. 138-168 AD. ALEXANDRIA HARBOR SCENE. Alexandria, Egypt; dated 154/155 AD (year 18). Æ drachm (32mm; 26.49 gm; 11h). Obv: Bust of Antoninus Pius, l. Rev: Isis Euploea standing facing, head left, three grain ears upward in right hand, reversed rudder in left; to her l., prow of galley with billowing sail, r., behind her, another similar galley to l. (neither visible in Emmett specimen); Euthenia reclining r. to her l and river-god Nilus holding rudder, reclining left on the right at her feet. Date “L – IH” across upper fields.
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    BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-375 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.58 gm, 12h, 13mm). Obv: Boeotian shield. Rev: ΘΕΒΗ, Kantharos; club above; all within incuse square. BCD Boiotia 412. Very thin horn silver coating; almost just a toning
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    Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. Odessos, Thrace; Æ 27. Obv: ΔΙVΩ CΕΥΗΡΩ ΠΕΙΩ (Divus Severus Pius). His bare head, r. Rev: ΟΔΗCCΕΙΤΩΝ. The Great God of Odessos stg.facing, hd. l., holding cornucopia in left arm and patera over altar to his right. Sear GI 2129, where-in Sear states "Posthumous types are rarely encountered in the Greek Imperial series, other than the issues for Divus Augustus."
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    Donna: Your coin is nicely toned. The red deposits could be removed by wrapping your coin in one layer of aluminum foil and soak it for a day or two in CONCENTRATED lemon juice you can buy at a grocery store. The red deposits will have softened and can probably be removed with a soft tooth brush or a tooth pick. If not completely, soak some more. Repeat as necessary. But then you would have a shiny coin not as charming as it is now. My advice is to leave it as-is. Pete
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    Julia Maesa, grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander. MOESIA INFERIOR, Odessus. Æ (24mm, 7.89 gm, 6h). Obv: Draped bust right, wearing stephane. Rev: Demeter to right, facing left, holding fruit or corn ears and long torch, facing Persephone on left, facing right holding long torch with right hand; left hand raised to shoulder of Demeter. Varbanov 4407 (R5). Varbanov says Persephone is also holding corn ears, but that is not apparent on this coin. The sole coin struck for her at Odessus.
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    Mine: The Abduction of Persephone. LYDIA, Nysa. After 133 BC. Æ (18mm, 5.78 gm, 10h). Obv: Head of Persephone right, poppy behind neck. Square countermark on nose. Rev: Hades in galloping quadriga right, carrying off struggling Persephone. Flower basket falling left from hands of Persephone. A valley near Nysa was the site where, according to the myth, the abduction happened. SNG Copenhagen 306; BMC Lydia 16
  9. PeteB
    Not a drachm.
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    MOESIA INFERIOR. Callatis/Kallatis. Pseudo-autonomous. Time of Antoninus Pius to Marcus Aurelius (138-180). Æ (15mm, 2.44 gm, 12h). Obv: Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right, wearing aegis. Rev: ΚΑΛΛΑΤΙΑΝΩΝ (Starting bottom left and going around counter-clockwise to the top). Shield decorated with wreath between club right and quiver left. RPC IV.1 online 8359. (var. reverse legend location); AMNG I 269 (var. same).
  11. PeteB
    No, sorry. Pete
  12. PeteB
    See http://akropoliscoins.com/FaustinaJrColybrassus.jpg
  13. PeteB
    Mine is simply a piece of my web site "avatar." I couldn't figure out how to get the whole thing to load.
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