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NERO
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERM, laureate head of Nero right.
REVERSE: DIVOS CLAVD AVGVST GERMANIC PATER AVG, Claudius' laureate head right
Struck at Caesarea, Cappodocia, 63/4AD
3.6g, 17mm
RIC 621, RSC 3, RPC 3648

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Septimius Severus silver drachm from Caesarea in Cappadocia.

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Sidon, Claudius (41-59 AD), AE 22.
Obv.: laureate head of Claudius, right
Rev.: ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ / [ΘΕΑΣ], LΒΞΡ (in field) (year 162 = 51-52 AD); Europa riding bull galloping right
RPC I 4615

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CLAUDIUS
AE As
OBVERSE: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TRP IMP P P - Bare head left
REVERSE: CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI - Constantia standing left, raising hand and holding spear; S C across fields
Struck at Spain, 42/3AD
12.7g, 25mm
RIC111, BMC201, S1858

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Vespasian, a provincial issue:

AE 26, Phrygia, Apameia (Kibotos) 69 – 79 AD, issued by magistrate Plancius Varus.

This issue is undated, but names Plancius Varus, who perhaps is the same person that is recorded as a Flavian legate in Asia during the reign of Vespasian. Varus is thought to have died by 81 AD.

See the post by @David Atherton at https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-earthquake-coin.326557/#post-3228889

24 x 26 mm, 9.449 g, 12h
RPC II, 1389; BMC (Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phrygia, p. 95) 150-151; SNG von Aulock 3491; Waddington 5709; Weber 3471; SNG Copenhagen (Heft 29) 210; SNG München (Heft 24) 151-152; SNG Tübingen (Heft 6) 3982; Mionnet VII, 157

Ob.: ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ (counter-clock wise starting at 5) laureate head of Vespasian to r.
Rev.: ΕΠΙ ΠΛΑΝΚΙΟΥ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΦΡΥΓΙΑΣ ΑΠΑΜΕΙΣ (counter-clock wise starting at 11 - under Plancius Varus, Koinon of Phrygia,of the Apameans); bundle of five grain stalks.




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This theme: a really, really heavy Aes Grave
An Apolo/Apollo as of 69 mm and 368.7grams:


Crawford 18/1. Sear I 520. Very thick.
Bought in London in 1988 and shown at the BM where Martin Price took me to the trays (The Roman curator was not in) and showed me the six they had and confirmed this was genuine and very much like them.

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Antioch, civic AE 13.5 mm, 1.47 g, 11 h. Under Maximinus Daia, AD 312.
Obv.: GENIO ANTIOCHENI, Tyche seated facing, river-god Orontes swimming below
Rev.: APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing to left, holding patera and lyre; Є in right field, SMA in exergue

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PHILIP I
AE30
OBVERSE: AVTOK K M IOVLI FILIPPOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: ANTIOCEWN MHTRO KOLWN D-E S-C, turreted & draped bust of Tyche right, ram leaping right above, star beneath
Struck at Antioch, 244-249 AD
30mm, 14g
BMC 528

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