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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4255826, member: 87809&quot;]My most recent acquisition, just because it is Augustus<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p>AE 24, Macedon, Amphipolis, 27 BC - 14 AD</p><p>24.21 mm, 7.86 g</p><p>Ref.: RPC I 1627; SNG Copenhagen 94; SNG ANS 157; Moushmov 6038; BMC 77; Varbanov 3120;</p><p><br /></p><p>Die adjustment marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΑΜ(ΦΙ)ΠO-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ, draped bust of Artemis Tauropolis r. wearing stephane, with bow and quiver over shoulder; circle of dots</p><p>Rev.: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ (ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟ)Σ, statue of Augustus in military dress raising arm, standing left on dais decorated with three bucrania, and being crowned by male figure wearing toga; circle of dots</p><p><br /></p><p>Some references say that the male figure is Genius Populi Romani crowning Augustus, other just say male figure crowning Augustus. Don&#039;t know why it could be Genius, so I just leave the description as male figure.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1085240[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1085241[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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