It is yours and my possessing the once so
rare obverse die, not only with
Diadumenian to r. (there are others of those) and in this
style (especially in the profile of
Macrinus) and with three lines at the bottom of the
obv. (there is not
exergue line), BUT ALSO with only OC in the third line, so
rare that, no. 716,
Pick knew it only in a
cast that Imhoof
had in an unknown
collection. Hr&J pp. 107-108, relying on
catalog photos,
still do not have this
obv. die. But Jochen and I both have it. The
Asklepios dies are promiscuous, I think, and there are similar
Asklepios at Nicopolis! I also have this
Homonoia with the
obv. of no. 716.
23 06 03 AE 26+ 14.97g
Marcianopolis Issued by Pontianus. Heads of
Diadumenian, to r., and
Macrinus, laureate, to l. AV K OPPEL SEVEta MAKRINOS and below K M OPPELI / ANTONIN / OS. All sigmas and epsilons squared. (This is the
rare die
Pick,
AMNG I, 1, p. 235, no. 716, known to
Pick only through a
cast of Imhoof's, and p. 246, no. 773 with a
Liberalitas reverse = 770, ex. 3, pl. XIX, 2).
Rev.,
Homonoia. bareheaded, stg. l. with
cornucopiae and
patera, making libation over burning garlanded
altar. VP PONTIANOV MARKIA[NOPO] and in
exergue LITON. The E for 5 is rounded, but the other letters recall those on
obverse, though a little less spiky. (Not in
Pick, but reasonably regarded as a variant of p. 245, no. 767).
I don't have the
Liberalitas obv. with this
reverse, but I do have a dreadful specimen of Pick's 716, with the
scarce standing
Zeus and
eagle reverse and this
obv.;
Pick would have been glad to have it.
12 04 04 Æ27 12.94g
axis 6:30
Marcianopolis. Issued by Pontianus.
Diadumenian to r. and
Macrinus, laureate, to l. both heads,
confronted. AV K OPPEL SEVE MAKRINOS and below heads K M OPPELI / ANTÔNIN / OS. This is preceisely Pick's no. 716.
Rev.,
Zeus, half draped, stg. to l.,
pater in
his r. hand and
scepter in
his l.; at
his feet at l., the
eagle stg. frontal and looking backand up at him. VP P[ONTI]ANO V MARKIANO and in
exergue POLI; in the
field at upper l. a lunate E. This is exactly the
reverse of
Pick nos. 715 and 716 (so a die link), which differ only in that 716 has the
rare obv. die (knownto
Pick only from Imhoof's
cast and not to
Varbanov, who has no standing
Zeus with
eagle. But
Pick notes under 715 that the hardly published specimens 2 and 3 might belong to to no. 716, since their
obvs. are not recorded exactly.