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Offline Arminius

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A Caesarea ?
« on: January 13, 2008, 07:35:11 am »
The reverse inscription might indicate a "Caesarea". The portrait looks like a younger Septimius Severus:

Æ 22 (20-22 mm / 5,77 g),
Obv.: ...AΔP?... , radiate head right.
Rev.: CAICAPEW...WC / Γ - Φ (across fields) , Tyche seated left, holding branch.

So far no results in books and on the web.

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Re: A Caesarea ?
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2008, 08:36:04 am »
http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3631/

If not exactly it, then a pretty good starting point.

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Re: A Caesarea ?
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2008, 09:40:28 am »
Thanks Steve for reanimating this slug.

Anazarbos in Cilicia, Antoninus Pius, local year 179 = 160-161 AD.,
Assarion / Æ 22 (20-22 mm / 5,77 g),
Obv.: [ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙ]Λ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤ[ΩΝΙΝΟC CЄΒ ЄΥC / Π - Π ] , radiate head of Antoninus Pius right.
Rev.: CAICAPЄΩ[Ν ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟC ΤΩ ΑΝΑΖ]ΑΡΒ / Є-Τ - ΘΟΡ (across fields) , turreted and veiled Tyche seated on rock left, holding poppy and grain-ears, resting arm on rock, beneath swimming river-god Pyramos.
RPC temporary № 3631 ; Ziegler, Anazarbus 143-6 ; Lindgren I, A1426A ; SNG France 2, 2029 ; SNG Levante 1388 .

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