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Pisidia Amblada/Caracalla/Dionysos
« on: August 19, 2016, 08:54:29 pm »
2016.232.1 Pisidia, Amblada; Caracalla

AE22; 5.36 g; 6h

Obverse: M AV ANTW-NEINOC; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Viewed from behind.
Reverse: AMBLADEW-N LAKEDAI (Note: Ws are upside down in both obverse and reverse inscriptions.) Dionysos standing left, holding thrysos in left and kantheros in right; panther at feet left, right paw raised, looking back to right; Pan behind holding syrinx.
Ref: cf. SNG Pfalzer 5,6 (Same obverse die); cf von Aulock Pisidiens Vol I; pg 60, 134 (same obverse die);
Notes: Pisidia, Amblada is a rare city and this is a rare coin - 2 known examples of the von Aulock dies, 1 for the SNG Pfalzer die and 1 for my reverse die.

c.rhodes
PS updated the notes and references.

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Re: Pisidia Amblada/Caracalla/Dionysos
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2016, 07:52:24 pm »
Hoops,

 Nice coin .... +++

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Re: Pisidia Amblada/Caracalla/Dionysos
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2016, 11:01:53 pm »
Wow! I don't think I have ever had an Amblada of any kind!
Great catch!
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Re: Pisidia Amblada/Caracalla/Dionysos
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2016, 07:28:19 am »
Congratulations on acquiring such a rare coin gordian_guy. How does it compare in grade against the few existing examples? Being such a rarity, I  would not be supersized if yours was one of the better ones.

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Re: Pisidia Amblada/Caracalla/Dionysos
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2016, 08:16:45 pm »


Thanks Pete and Steve.

I had to revise my notes. For some reason I my dies being the same as the Pfalzer dies, but in each case it is only the Obverse dies that match. So, it appears that von Aulock #'s 134 and 135 are die-pair matches, obverse and reverse, whereas for the Pfalzer example only the obverse die matches von Aulock but the reverse is different. For my example, only the obverse die matches the Pfalzer and von Aulock coins but my reverse die is different from both. Currently there appears to be 3 different reverse dies.

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