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Domitian / Spes reverse
« on: July 14, 2008, 04:06:11 pm »
Maybe someone can remember these depictions:

Æ22 (22 mm / 7,22 g),
Obv.: ...NEP... , laureate head right.
Rev.: EΠI API.....BΩ.. / ETO -YC / IB - P (or similar, in two lines across fields) , Elpis / Spes? standing l., holding (flower?) and raising skirt.

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Re: Nero or Nerva-Trajan / Spes reverse
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2008, 05:08:14 pm »
I think it must be this one (... DOMITIANOS SE GER / ... ETOYS IBR, one of 3 very similar entries in Isegrim):

PRO:   CILICIA PEDIAS
PO :   ANAZARBUS
PZ :   Between 93 and 94
TIG:   KAISAREWN
   Obverse
VSG:   AYTO KAI T'E YI DOMITIANOS SE GER
VT :   PORTRAIT MAN R / DOMITIAN
VA :   WREATH LAUREL
VF :   STAR
   Reverse
RSG:   KAISAREWN PR ANAZRABW ETOYS IBR
RT :   WOMAN WALKING L(1) / ELPIS(1)
RA :   BLOSSOM(1)
RF :   YEAR IBR <112>
   Technical details
M  :   AE
GR :   21(1-2) / 22(3)
GEW:   6.28(1) / 7.48(2)
ST :   12(1-2)
   Bibliographical references
ZIT:   ZIEGLER KAISER 074(1-3) / BMC 19 S32,8(1) / COLL BM 1874.7.15.450(1) / SEAR GIC 0857(1) / BOSCH NUMISMATIK 1933 S37(1)
SG :   SLG WADDINGTON 4111(2) / IMHOOF JHS 1898 S161,3(2) / COLL PARIS 157(2) / SNG FRANCE 2 2015(2) / AUKT PEUS 004 76(3)
   Additional remarks
FR :   VS: AYTO KAI T'E YI DOMITIANOS SE GER RS: KAISAREWN PR ANAZRABW(!) ETOYS IBR
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Re: Nero or Nerva-Trajan / Spes reverse
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2008, 05:19:07 pm »
You fixed it !

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Re: Domitian / Spes reverse
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2008, 08:37:36 pm »
Elpisberry liqueur if you please, or perhaps bottled courage, still timelier --
Temper thy haste with sloth -- Taverner / Erasmus.

 

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