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Author Topic: Claudius II., Antioch, left bust with legends error, IVVENTVS AVG, not in Estiot  (Read 618 times)

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Claudius II., Antioch, left bust with legends error, IVVENTVS AVG, not in Estiot's site.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-142512

104 Claudius II. (268-270 A.D.), T-1057var. (Estiot), RIC V-I 113var., Antioch, AE-Antoninianus, IVVENTVS AVG, -/-//--, Hercules standing, facing, #1
avers:- IMP C CLAVD(I)VS AVG (Legends error I are missing), Bust left, radiate, with traces of drapery to front of truncation, one or two dot under the bust(!!!), (A2l).
revers:- IVVENTVS AVG, Hercules standing, facing, head left, right hand leaning on club, and holding apple in left hand, lion's skin over left arm, (Hercules 4).
exerg: -/-//--, diameter: 20,0mm, weight: 3,01g, axes: 0h,
mint: Antioch, iss-3, off-4, date: 270 A.D., ref: T-1057var. (Estiot), RIC V-I 213,

This coin have two interesting difference compared the Estiot site T-1057, coins,
http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/1057

1st., Under the bust one or two dots

2nd., The avers legends have an error missed the I, but interesting because the one side of the V are also look missed.

it means the legends intead of : IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG
 look :"IMP C CLAVDVS AVG" or "IMP C CLAVDIS AIG" ???

Thank you your opinion..

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By any means an interesting coin.
Dots under the bust are only described for Cyzicus mint. Can these two just be coincidental dirt?
The strange shape of the V on AVG on the obverse is certainly just a clogging of the die obscuring the right arm of the V.
The CLAUDUS, however, is clearly a real mis-spelling turning Claudius into Claudus, "The Lame".

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Thank you, Rupert,

About the dot ???

I put the coin under the microscope to recognized it looks like a dirt one of them or real dot.

The biggest one looks real dot, but it is true some similar dot visible the reverse side which is looking like a dirt.

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