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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 3191075, member: 87809"]Interesting countermark, haven't seen it before. Thanks for sharing, always something new to learn <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Mine is 5.07 g; 17 x 18 mm; no countermark</p><p><br /></p><p>According to </p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Caligula%20-%20Provincial%20Coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Caligula%20-%20Provincial%20Coinage" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Caligula - Provincial Coinage</a> there seem to be some open questions regarding this issue:</p><p>"Augustus or Gaius Caligula. Unpublished for Caligula. As there is no readable legend on the obverse of this coin, attribution as Caligula is conjectural and based strictly on the style of the portrait, which resembles Caligula. As we know, there is only one pre-principate portrait of Caligula from Carthago Nova with Tiberian portrait. I thought this portrait was Caligula years ago and at one time was said to have been Augustus in catalog."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]823833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]823834[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 3191075, member: 87809"]Interesting countermark, haven't seen it before. Thanks for sharing, always something new to learn :-) Mine is 5.07 g; 17 x 18 mm; no countermark According to [url]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Caligula%20-%20Provincial%20Coinage[/url] there seem to be some open questions regarding this issue: "Augustus or Gaius Caligula. Unpublished for Caligula. As there is no readable legend on the obverse of this coin, attribution as Caligula is conjectural and based strictly on the style of the portrait, which resembles Caligula. As we know, there is only one pre-principate portrait of Caligula from Carthago Nova with Tiberian portrait. I thought this portrait was Caligula years ago and at one time was said to have been Augustus in catalog." [ATTACH=full]823833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]823834[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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