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Author Topic: Any modern medail?  (Read 519 times)

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Any modern medail?
« on: December 17, 2008, 12:17:31 pm »
Hi please what it can be? 35mm
Silver medail of any antique man? :D
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Re: Any modern medail?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2008, 12:28:24 pm »
i can read only antoninvs..

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Re: Any modern medail?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2008, 01:28:15 pm »
Attractive medal. It is of Diadumenian (died 218 AD). I see his full name on the obverse: "Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus" and in part on the reverse. The second line on the reverse gives his father's name, Macrinus, and the next line his mother's, Nonia Celsa. The last line on the reverse gives the date 218 in Roman numerals. The reverse inscription is difficult to make out as the photograph is a bit out of focus but it is definitely biographical with regard to Diadumenian.
Not sure of its age but based upon its style my guess would be that this medal is perhaps Italian or French, possibly circa 17th or 18th century?

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Re: A modern medal?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2008, 01:49:59 pm »
Probably artist's initials C.W. at bottom of rev., I think that's Christian Weymuth or similar, a German engraver who produced a series of medals for the Roman emperors in the 18th century, with their biographical details in Latin on the back.

Below is Andreas Reich's example for Regalian, to fill the space until he can find a real specimen in a junk box!
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Re: Any modern medail?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2008, 07:10:17 pm »
Right you are, Curtis!
Enlarging the image I see "CW" distinctly below the year date at the bottom of the reverse.
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