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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 5222225, member: 99456&quot;]A nice &quot;rerun&quot; pair [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER].&nbsp; Here&#039;s a reverse twist on &quot;rerun&quot; with a provincial mint pre-dating a Roman issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; With about 150+ years between these coins - the much earlier coin a Roman republican provincial and the second coin a Rome issued denarius, some themes remained popular for a long time:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216363[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Epirus, Korkyra,</b> circa 229-48 BC, AR didrachm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Wreathed head of Dionysos right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Pegasus flying right; monogram above, prow and monogram below</p><p><b>Ref: </b>SNG Evelpidis 1931–2; HGC 6, 65</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216296[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Q. Titius</b>, 90 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Head of young Bacchus (or Liber) right, wearing ivy wreath</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Pegasus springing right on tablet inscribed Q•TITI</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-341.2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-341.2" rel="nofollow">341/2</a>; Sydenham 692[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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