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Nie mogę tej monety znaleźć w RIC.  PAX PERPETVA, P-R w polu płaszczyzny, RT w polu exergue (Rzym). Czy dobrze odczytuję rewers?
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Coin of the Day / Re: Extremely Rare Domitian 'PONT' Denarius COTD
« Last post by Curtis JJ on Today at 11:23:43 am »
Well done, catching this rarity & giving us a nice writeup to share what makes it special! Interesting to consider how the coin might serve as evidence for understanding just a bit more about the transition of power from Titus to Domitian, and the relationships between Emperor, Senate, and military in the late 1st Cent.

We gloss all the titles (and titles and titles...) with "Caesar," "Augustus," or just "Emperor." (Perfectly reasonable to do so, of course.) But this type is a great reminder that all those titles and roles are actually contingent processes (at least their timing is), rather than automatic. I assume it was a more-or-less foregone conclusion that the Senate would award Domitian with those titles, but reading your gallery explanation, I realize I don't actually know most of their specific purposes -- what powers or sense of legitimacy each of them afforded -- or the consequences of delaying or leaving them unassigned.

This is the kind of coin & commentary that I love to see in the Galleries!
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Identification Help / Re: Constantine II as caesar, can't id mintmark
« Last post by Mateusz W on Today at 11:20:24 am »
There's a dot after VOT, it might actually be not listed in RIC?
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Identification Help / Alexander the Great quarter unit
« Last post by solon on Today at 11:11:05 am »

AE 11mm.  1.40g.

Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Bow in bow-case above, thunderbolt below.

Unfortunately, I could not find another sample of this coin.

Reference is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Identification Help / Re: Constantine II as caesar, can't id mintmark
« Last post by BiancasDad on Today at 11:09:05 am »
Either RS or RQ from Rome - RIC 236
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Identification Help / Re: Faustina (?) provincial to id
« Last post by Mateusz W on Today at 10:57:57 am »
Thanks a lot, got it quickly!

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11200
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Identification Help / Re: Provincial coin to id
« Last post by shanxi on Today at 10:52:32 am »
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Identification Help / Re: Faustina (?) provincial to id
« Last post by shanxi on Today at 10:50:34 am »
Look for Faustina II, Cyzikus, Demeter
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Identification Help / Faustina (?) provincial to id
« Last post by Mateusz W on Today at 10:33:31 am »
10g/26mm
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