2nd Augustus unable to find a reference

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  1. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    I had this question in another thread, but thought it might be better to create a new thread. Don't know how to delete it from the other thread.

    Here is the other one where I have no clue - on the obverse Augustus and the legend AVGVSTVS, but on the reverse can't read the legend nor identify who it is.
    Diameter 16 x 18 mm, 5.07 gr
    Thanks a lot for your help!
    Chris
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  3. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    Hey Chris! Go here http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim/anmelden.html , click anonymous English then search Asia Minor then paste
    vt: portrait man r rt: portrait man r gr1:16 gr2:18 m:ae
    in the search string box. This will give you 22 coins to compare. Also take some different pics and try to get some of the inscription in better focus.

    For some reason its putting an emoji after vt:. There should be no space after colons in the search string.
     
    Last edited: Sep 11, 2017
  4. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

    Hehe! :p

    (@cmezner the tongues should be colon and a p)
     
  5. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    Thank you so very much ancientone! That is impressive!! Great job! Will try to read the legends and make better pictures to share.
     
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  6. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    I made new pictures but I still can't read them and compare them to the 22 coins in isegrim.

    I think they can't actually be improved because the letters are pretty worn out. I am sending them anyway, maybe some of you guys can see something that I can't?

    Thanks!
    Chris IMG_2313.JPG IMG_2314.JPG
     
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  7. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

    In the first picture, the bust looks like Trajan to me. The other could be Nerva.
     
  8. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    Finally, after taking a lot of pictures, using the magnifying glass and searching on the Internet, I think I found on this last day of 2017 the right description at http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/caligula/RPC_0996.jpg
    Caligula and Germanicus AE21 of Knossos, Crete, C CAESAR AV GERMANICVS, laureate head right / GER CAESAR PVLCHRO III VARIO IIVIR, laureate head of Germanicus right. Svoronos Crete 209. Knossos RPC 996. I am attaching better pictures, so that at least part of the inscriptions can be read. Do you guys think I am right? There seems to be a star, which I can't see on the wildwind coin, in front of the first picture.
    All the Best to all of you in 2018 :) IMG_1681-237a.JPG IMG_1645-237b.JPG
     
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