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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2160762, member: 56859&quot;]I have a somewhat similar coin from Arados but the large deity head + small emperor head but all of these Arados examples have bulls on the reverse, as far as I can tell.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_4d8ffd4c7692454fbdaae532a808a53a.jpg_srb_p_850_434_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Arados </b></p><p><b>Trajan. CE 98-117</b></p><p>CY 375 (CE 116/7)</p><p>Æ22, 9.65 g</p><p>Obv: draped bust of Astarte-Europa right; before, small laureate and draped bust of Trajan </p><p>Rev: bull charging left</p><p>Reference:&nbsp; SNG Copenhagen 81; BMC 374</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that the portraits look earlier, perhaps Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, or Trajan.</p><p><br /></p><p>A very quick pass through those emperors&#039; provincials on Wildwinds didn&#039;t show a match.&nbsp; I&#039;ll continue looking through other databases tonight if no one else has identified it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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