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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3173457, member: 75937&quot;]Nice job on the identification! I think you have attributed it correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an early provincial that comes with a wide variety of obverse inscriptions and bust types. By its size, bare-head, and a few letters visible from 2:00 - 3:00 on the obverse, ΥΙΟΣ, and a fortuitous line-drawing in BMC Greek vol. 5, p. 52, I was able to ID this one as BMC 73:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]816173[/ATTACH]</p><p>Augustus, 27 BC - AD 14.</p><p>Roman provincial AE 23.</p><p>Macedon, Amphipolis, 10.25 g, 23.3 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Obv: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ, bare-head, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛΙΕΙΤΩΝ, Artemis Tauropolos with inflated veil, riding on bull galloping right.</p><p>Refs: BMC 5, p. 52, 73; Sear Greek Imperial 29.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the page from BMC. Note how the ΥΙΟΣ in the obverse inscription, particularly the close proximity of the iota and omicron, matches the example in the line drawing. Note also how the AP at the end of ΚΑΙΣΑΡ behind the bust matches my coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]816174[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Without this line-drawing in BMC vol. 5, I don&#039;t think I could have made a solid ID.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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