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A bronze provincial coin of Diadumenian showing a cista mystica Coin Type: Bronze assarion of Diadumenian from Markianopolis in Moesia Inferior.
Mint and Date: Markianopolis, 217-218 CE
Size and Weight: 15mm x 17mm, 2.76g
Obverse: K M OΠEΛΛI ANTΩNINOC
Draped, bare-headed bust right, seen from behind.
Reverse: MAPKIANOΠOΛEI and in ex: TΩN
Cista, half-opened to the right, with snake emerging.
Ref: Varbanov I (English) 1329; Megaw MAR 1.5a; AMNG I 804 var; Hristova/Jekov (2011) — (6.25.5.1 has the obv. die and the rev. type with a different die).
Provenance: antiquarica (eBay), June 2009
BW Ref: 004 041 142
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