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... The next 4 coins I have found in Dario Colomino: Bilingual Coins of Severus Alexander in the Eastern Provinces,, 2014 ...A link to this article and a bit of discussion can be found here: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=124046.0
#079For this coin the entry in the database of the Portable Antiquities Scheme can be seen here (but with very bad pictures, don't be disappointed): https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/566819
A new "barbaric imitation" for Severus Alexander
Severus Alexander , AD 222-235
AE 17, 2.05g, 0°
obv. IMP SEV ALEX[ANDER][...]
Laureate head, r.
rev. NIKOPOLITWN PCOT ICT[...?](sic!)
Crescent with 1 star
ref. unpublished
Calomino, Bilingual Coins, Pl.59. 15
Best regards
Herakles, nude, lion's skin over l. arm, stg. frontal, head r., r. hand on back, resting with l. hand on club set on rock ref. a) not in AMNG b) Varbanov 2413 c) not in Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov (2020): rev. No. 8.14.14.18 (same die) obv. e.g. 8.14.1.60 Savoca Coins, 96th Blue Auction, February 2021, Lot 630 Best regards |