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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1996868, member: 19463&quot;]Flavia Philadelphia, Lydia, that is.&nbsp; There are millions of Roman Provincial coins and, frankly, I am bored by 90% of them.&nbsp; Of the 10%, at least half are too spectacular for the likes of me and sell way over my bracket unless their condition is abysmal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortunately the remaining 5% out of millions still leaves a lot of coins that could follow me home if the dealer agrees that it is not one of the high priced models.&nbsp; The Fredericksburg show produced one such coin in this AE22 of Vespasian.&nbsp; I do not own the book on these but it came identified as RPC volume II - 1329.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to own Roman Provincial Coins but every volume produced or announced will exceed in price the total of coins I own from that volume so I probably won&#039;t be buying any.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]357252[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>While not full legend, the reverse spells out the name and title of the magistrate and the city name taking two circular lines to do it.&nbsp; In the middle is a very stiff figure (herm???) of Zeus.&nbsp; Both Zeus&#039; face and Vespasian&#039;s are reasonably nice and I decided that I could justify the coin even though it will never be a favorite.&nbsp; Most of my Provincials are from the big cities.&nbsp; Not small, Philadelphia seems to be best known as a site of one of the seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation and for being prone to being destroyed by earthquakes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I probably bought it because of the double line legend and I was looking for something not similar to my other coins.&nbsp; I can not help noting that,&nbsp; IF the reverse figure is Zeus, why does he appear to be sacrificing over an altar?&nbsp; After all, who would Zeus be sacrificing to???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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