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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5134747, member: 85693&quot;]Okay, I&#039;m going to take a whack at this one...</p><p><br /></p><p>The general look says &quot;provincial&quot; to me.&nbsp; So going with that, here is my line of thinking (using RPC searches):</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse portrait does resemble Commodus, but his dad Marcus Aurelius is a possibility too.&nbsp; Or even Lucius Verus. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse deity is on a backless seat - curule maybe.&nbsp; No scepter and no cornucopiae.&nbsp; Leaning slightly forward.&nbsp; When doing a search on RPC, Cybele kept coming up - seated on a backless chair.&nbsp; Cybele is leaning her elbow on a tympanum, typically, which may be what is going on with the OP. </p><p><br /></p><p>I searched RPC and found a couple that suggest the OP - but no exact matches.&nbsp; Establishing who that deity (or person) is on the reverse would be a big help - these have the backless seat, no cornucopiae, holding something in hand:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/494" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/494" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/494</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1530" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1530" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1530</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3344" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3344" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3344</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some acsearch hits along the same lines:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2796849" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2796849" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2796849</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6994181" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6994181" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6994181</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If further inspiration strikes, I&#039;ll let you know![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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