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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3634368, member: 87809&quot;]you asked for it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and I gladly will add some more<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dupondius, Colonia Patricia, Cordoba, ca. 15-14 BC</p><p>31 x 32 mm, 18.87 g</p><p>FAB-1988; RPC 128; Burgos 1562; SNG Copenhagen 464-5; Vives 165-2</p><p>Cordova, in Andalusia, was the first colony established by the Romans in Spain. Its original name was Corduba. When it was made a Roman colony, it was renamed Colonia Patricia to honor the veterans and worthy men who settled it to whom honor was due as to Fathers (Patribus). Augustus visited Patricia in 15 or 14 B.C.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: <i>PERMISSV CAESARIS AVGVSTI.</i> Bare Augustus head to left.</p><p>Rev.: COLONIA PATRICIA around legionary eagle (Aquila) between two military standards (Signa).</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]975029[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]975030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ As, Colonia Victrix Iulia Celsa, 2 - 14 AD, Magistrates Domitius and Pompeius.</p><p>28 x 29 mm, 13.25 g</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC I 278; ACIP 3169e; SNG Cop 541; Cohen Vol.1 #700 Pag.156; Guadan 446; Ripolles 3159 P.368; FAB. 811</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS COS XII IMP Laureate head to right. </p><p>Rev.: CN. DOMIT C POMPEI II VIR CV I CEL Bull to right.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]975036[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]975038[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ As, Rome, 6 BC moneyer Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus</p><p>25 x 26 mm, 10.34 g</p><p>RIC 439; </p><p>Ob.: CAESAR·AVGVST·PONT·MAX·TRIBVNIC·POT· Head of Augustus, bare, right</p><p>Rev.: SEX·NONIVS·QVINCTILIAN·III·VIR·A·A ·A F· F·&nbsp; large S·C</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"> [ATTACH=full]975040[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]975041[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and the following Æ23, which I think is funny, because of the cartoonish portrait of Divus Augustus. </p><p>Issued under the emperor Trajan at the provincial mint of Berytus, Phoenicia ca. 99 - 102 AD. RPC suggests that this issue is from about 100 AD.</p><p>A colonist, or priest veiled, guiding two oxen, or an ox and a cow, are the common numismatic symbols of an established colony, and a very frequent type on the coins of Berytus</p><p><br /></p><p>23 mm, 12.78 g</p><p>Sawaya 584-5 (D101/R246); BMC 62ff; RPC III, 3833</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: DIVOS AVGVSTVS Bare head of Augustus, r.</p><p>Rev.: COL·IVL in two lines upper field, AVG on r. and on l. BER; in ex. FEL inverted. Founder, veiled and togate, plowing to r. with two oxen</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]975043[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]975044[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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