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<p>[QUOTE="zadie, post: 7833269, member: 114699"]I said I would attempt to form a set of these coins and apparently I won this from Savoca today. I put in a pre-bid ages ago and forgot about it. Condition is not great but I am perfectly happy to get this for a 32 EUR hammer. I can honestly say that I've thoroughly enjoyed scouring all the different auctions for these coins. Finding one among the piles of other provincials made me very happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type is stylistically related to RPC I 5409 and names the person on the obverse as "PRINCEPS FELIX", heavily suggesting the person is Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346393[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">Provincial coins of Cilicia. Augustus (27 BC- 14 AD). Æ Semis (?). Struck in an uncertain colony in Cilicia. Head of Augustus right, PRINCEPS FELIX / Group of zebus pulling plow to left, COLONIA IVLIA / II VIR VE TER. 21 mm, 6,31 g. RPC 4083.</font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zadie, post: 7833269, member: 114699"]I said I would attempt to form a set of these coins and apparently I won this from Savoca today. I put in a pre-bid ages ago and forgot about it. Condition is not great but I am perfectly happy to get this for a 32 EUR hammer. I can honestly say that I've thoroughly enjoyed scouring all the different auctions for these coins. Finding one among the piles of other provincials made me very happy. This type is stylistically related to RPC I 5409 and names the person on the obverse as "PRINCEPS FELIX", heavily suggesting the person is Augustus. [ATTACH=full]1346393[/ATTACH] [CENTER][SIZE=3]Provincial coins of Cilicia. Augustus (27 BC- 14 AD). Æ Semis (?). Struck in an uncertain colony in Cilicia. Head of Augustus right, PRINCEPS FELIX / Group of zebus pulling plow to left, COLONIA IVLIA / II VIR VE TER. 21 mm, 6,31 g. RPC 4083.[/SIZE][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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