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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Sardes| > RP94274
Drusus and Germanicus, Sardes, Lydia, c. 23 - 26 A.D.
|Sardes|, |Drusus| |and| |Germanicus,| |Sardes,| |Lydia,| |c.| |23| |-| |26| |A.D.|, Restruck c. 28-29 A.D., by Asinius Pollio, Proconsul. This coin was originally struck with the reverse legend ΕΠI APΞIΕPΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔPOY KΛΕΩNOΣ ΣAPΔIANOY but using an elaborate set of ring-shaped countermark dies the obverse and reverse legends were restruck, the reverse indicating the new magistrate.
RP94274. Bronze AE 28, RPC I 2995; SNG Cop 518; SNG Munchen 507; SNG Tubingen 3806; BMC Lydia p. 252, 106; Weber 6905; SNGvA -, aVF, nice dark green patina, Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint, weight 15.3412g, maximum diameter 28.0mm, die axis 0o, restruck c. 28 - 29 A.D.; obverse ΔΠOYΣOΣ KAI ΓEPMANIKOΣ KAIΣAPEΣ NEOI ΘEOI ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOI, Drusus and Germanicus, togate, seated left on curule chairs, one holding lituus; reverse ΓAIΩ AΣINNIΩ ΠOΛΛIΩNI ANΘYΠATΩ, overstruck on original legend, oak and laurel wreath enclosing KOINOY AΣIAΣ; SOLD



  






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