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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1777067, member: 56859&quot;]This is one of the more interesting coins I have so far.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283716[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">This coin was originally struck with the reverse legend EPI ARXIEREWS ALEXANDROU KLEWNOS SARDIANOU but </span></font></span><b><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">using an elaborate set of ring shaped countermark dies the obverse and reverse legends were restruck</span></font></span></b><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">, the reverse indicating the new magistrate.</span></font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">LYDIA. Sardes. </span></font></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Germanicus, with Drusus (Caesar, 15 BC-AD 19). AE</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Struck under Caligula, restruck circa AD 28/9. Asinius Pollio, proconsul.</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Obverse Legend : deltaΡΟΥΣΟΣ KAI gammaΕΡMANIKOΣ KAIΣΑΡΕΣ NEOI ΘEOI ΦΙΛΑdeltaΕΛΦOI</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Obverse Description : Togate figures of Drusus and Germanicus seated left on curule chairs, one figure holding a lituus</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Reverse Legend : gammaΑΙΩ AΣΙΝΝΙΩ ΠΟΛΛΙΩΝI ANΘΥΠΑΤΩ KOINOΥ AΣΙΑΣ</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Reverse Description : KOINOY AΣΙΑΣ in two lines within wreath; legend around</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 15.5 gm</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 29 mm</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">RPC 2995</span></font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">Supposedly there is an article about this type in the November 1994 issue of The Celator. I&#039;m trying to locate a copy of that article-- no luck finding it online so I&#039;ll have to find and buy a copy of that issue. The piece by Thomas McKenna is titled &quot;The case of the curious coin of Caligula: A provincial bronze restruck with legend-only dies&quot;.</span></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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