I have recently started working again on cataloging my
Gordian provincial collection, that is when I am in town and not out chasing our satellite around the country (Here is a non-numismatic link for the Geeks who might be interested!
http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/public/).
Anyway, in Regling's cataloging of the coinage of
Moesia Inferior,
Tomis, he generated a list of
bust dies for Gordian/Tranquillina - he found 11 dies gives a description of each with
inscription. He lists them as alpha, beta, gamma, etc and since
AMNG rarely shows the
obverse dies one has difficulty deciding which die from Regling's list one's coin might be. So I decided to generate a list from
his list including an image of each of the dies from coins in my
collection. In the process of putting together my list I may have found a new die, but I am shy two dies to
complete the
Regling list. My new die may be one of those missing dies, as it matches in several ways the description of the lambda die listed by
Regling except for a couple of letters CE, on my die not listed by
Regling. Either way, I
still am missing at least one die and would certainly like to find another die to confirm if my die is or is not Regling's lambda die. I know that others on this
Forum pick up, on occasion, a
Gordian and sometimes even one from
Tomis and I would like to enlist the Forum's aid in finding an example of Regling's Beta die (If you have
AMNG you can easily look up what I am talking about, otherwise you can contact me and request a PDF copy of my list to aid in you in looking through your
collection) and a lambda die - or a second die like my die - which I am calling mu for now. Anyone with a few Tomis's in their
collection willing to take a look would be of much
help. I suspect that the Beta-die is
scarce - thus the reason I do not yet have an example.
It took a
bit of
work to put my list together, but with Dr. Lawrence's translation and a careful examination of the dies based on the descriptions given of features by
Regling I was able to match dies with the same inscriptions to their corresponding
Regling letter.
c.rhodes