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ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Diadumenian, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior
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Obv: [Κ Μ ΟΠΕ] ΛΛΙ ΑΝΤΩ [Ν] ΔΙΑΔΟVΜ [ΕΝΙΑΝΟC]
Bare head, right.
Rev: VΠ C [ΤΑΤΙ ΛΟΝΓΙΝΟV ΝΙΚΟΠ] ΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠRΟC ΙCΤ ΡΩ
Conflated personification of Nemesis & Aequitas standing left, holding cornucopiae in left arm and set of balance scales in outstretched right hand. Wheel by knees.
10 gm, 25.6mm, 217-218 AD, AMNG (I) 1861(var)
Comment: Issued under the Provincial Governor, Statius Longinus. The interesting combination of godesses was suggested by Pat Lawrence. Based on that I interpret the message to mean that unethical/unlawful conduct in the marketplace will be judged and condemned in the afterlife.
All too typical of the time, Diadumenian and his father, Macrinus, were assassinated at Antioch by the order of Elagabalus in June of 218. The boy was not quite ten years old.
Attribution thanks go to Steve Minnoch and Pat Lawrence.
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![ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Diadumenian, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior
Obv: [Κ Μ ΟΠΕ] ΛΛΙ ΑΝΤΩ [Ν] ΔΙΑΔΟVΜ [ΕΝΙΑΝΟC]
Bare head, right.
Rev: VΠ C [ΤΑΤΙ ΛΟΝΓΙΝΟV ΝΙΚΟΠ] ΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠRΟC ΙCΤ ΡΩ
Conflated personification of Nemesis & Aequitas standing left, holding cornucopiae in left arm and set of balance scales in outstretched right hand. Wheel by knees.
10 gm, 25.6mm, 217-218 AD, AMNG (I) 1861(var)
Comment: Issued under the Provincial Governor, Statius Longinus. The interesting combination of godesses was suggested by Pat Lawrence. Based on that I interpret the message to mean that unethical/unlawful conduct in the marketplace will be judged and condemned in the afterlife.
All too typical of the time, Diadumenian and his father, Macrinus, were assassinated at Antioch by the order of Elagabalus in June of 218. The boy was not quite ten years old.
Attribution thanks go to Steve Minnoch and Pat Lawrence.
Keywords: Diadumenian Macrinus Nicopolis Moesia](albums/userpics/10199/bpP1E6Moesia.jpg "ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Diadumenian, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior
Obv: [Κ Μ ΟΠΕ] ΛΛΙ ΑΝΤΩ [Ν] ΔΙΑΔΟVΜ [ΕΝΙΑΝΟC]
Bare head, right.
Rev: VΠ C [ΤΑΤΙ ΛΟΝΓΙΝΟV ΝΙΚΟΠ] ΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠRΟC ΙCΤ ΡΩ
Conflated personification of Nemesis & Aequitas standing left, holding cornucopiae in left arm and set of balance scales in outstretched right hand. Wheel by knees.
10 gm, 25.6mm, 217-218 AD, AMNG (I) 1861(var)
Comment: Issued under the Provincial Governor, Statius Longinus. The interesting combination of godesses was suggested by Pat Lawrence. Based on that I interpret the message to mean that unethical/unlawful conduct in the marketplace will be judged and condemned in the afterlife.
All too typical of the time, Diadumenian and his father, Macrinus, were assassinated at Antioch by the order of Elagabalus in June of 218. The boy was not quite ten years old.
Attribution thanks go to Steve Minnoch and Pat Lawrence.
Keywords: Diadumenian Macrinus Nicopolis Moesia")
