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Connect4:
I can’t identify this coin.  I suspect I’ve misread the reverse.
Obv. Salonina AEKOΡ CAΛΩ-NEINA CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev. Naked? female figure standing facing. Arms wrapped around herself    .I.IAIΩΩOΩO-ΩOEITΩN
10.4gr 24.4-24.8mm axis 12hr
Thanks

Pekka K:
Reverse reads: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, so Philippopolis Thrace or Arabia.

Pekka K

edt: Varbanov lists #1812 "Aphrodite advancing, her hands raised" ref. to Moushmov 5442.

Connect4:
Thanks Pekka K,
Another very fast Id.
There don't seem to be many examples on-line

Pekka K:
Looks like your picture is the first.

Varbanov 1812 has footnote: There is no evidence of authenticy.

So now there seems to be evidence.

Pekka K

Pekka K:

It is not even in Varbanov's new book:

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