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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3641327, member: 87809&quot;]An Æ 32 that has seen better days <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Uncertain mint in Bithynia (Apameia Myrlea?) 14 AD </p><p>31 x 32 mm, 18.84 g</p><p>RPC 2097; McClean 3028; Stumpf 178-9; FITA 145-6G; Stumpf, &quot;Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der Römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien&quot; (1991) p. 272, No. 1428</p><p><br /></p><p>The late Augustan seated female figure on this coin of M. Granius Marcellus is described in FITA, p. 145, as Livia; whether this is true or not, she does not provide a precedent for the priestess type since she carries a double cornucopia nor does she appear to be veiled.</p><p>The year 13 - 14 AD combined the 40th anniversary of the title Pater Patriae. It is natural to attribute to this occasion the AEs of M. Granius Marcellus, proconsul of Bythinia in ca. 14 - 15 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: IMP•CAESAR•AVGVSTVS• PONTIF•MAX TR P, Jugate busts of Augustus and Livia to l.</p><p>Rev.: M GRANIVS•MARCELLVS•PROCOS, Livia seated r. holding double cornucopiae</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]977507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]977508[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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