Subject: Re: [Moneta-L] Re: Help with provincial coin.
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:37:32 -0400
From: "Michael Smith" <xtro2001@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Dave Surber" <dave.surber@wildwinds.com>

Dear Mr. Surber,

Thanks for your assistance with the coin, . Absolutely you may add it to
Wildwinds (which by the way is one of my absolute favorite and most heavily
visted sites.). I'll be working further on the legend and I hope to be able
to decipher more of the left side.

Best Regards,

Mike Smith

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Surber" <dave.surber@wildwinds.com>
To: <xtro@netzero.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Moneta-L] Re: Help with provincial coin.

> Mike,
>
>    I've got SNG Copenhagen open here to the Samos section, and there isn't
anything
> directly matching your coin. No. 1795 has that reverse theme, but is 25mm,
so if I were
> to add it to the Valerian I page I'd call it an "SNGCop 1795cf".
>
> I think you've deciphered the inscription  pretty well and it's got to be
Valerian.
>
>    Valerian's name on the SNGCop coins are variations on AVT K PiO LI
OVALEPIANVOS;
> hope that might help you with the left hand side of that obverse
inscription.
>
>     May I ask your permission to add it to WildWinds, and to let me know
any additional
> attribution info you might get?
>
>          Best Regards,
>
>                - Dave
>
> xtro@netzero.net wrote:
>
> > I've received no responses so I've added a scan of the coin to assist
> > anyone who can help.
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Moneta-L/files/samosAE15.JPG
> >
> > I am also able to add the following adsditional information. The
> > portion of the obverse legend I can definitely make out
> > includes "VALEPIANO" I now believe (but am still not certain) it is
> > Valerian Sr. with a reverse of the Cultus Statue of Hera at Samos.
> > Can somebody more knowledgable than myself verify (or correct) this
> > attribution?
> >
> > My sincere thanks for any help received,
> >
> > Mike S.
> >
> > --- In Moneta-L@y..., xtro@n... wrote:
> > > I'm attempting to futher attribute a Roman Provincial coin. I've
> > been
> > > able to determine the following. The reverse shows a standing,
> > > apparently facing, female figure facing which may be a cult statue.
> > > The legend on the reverse is CAMI(Omega)N identifying it as a coin
> > of
> > > Samos.
> > >
> > > From the obverse portrait and such portions of the inscription as I
> > > can read, this coin appears to be Valerian I or II or Saloninus.
> > The
> > > coin is an AE15/16 and weighs 1.88g. The die axis is 6 o'clock. Can
> > > someone on the list narrow down the personage depicted further
> > based
> > > on this description?
> > >
> > > My sincere thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Mike S.
> >
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