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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24584669, member: 87809&quot;]Just received it today<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p>Æ Hemiassarion</p><p>Province Asia, Conventus of Sardis, Lydia, Philadelphia (Neocesarea), 37 - 41 AD; magistrate Hermogenes Olympionikes</p><p><br /></p><p>18 mm, 4.31 g, 12h</p><p>RPC I 3023 var (no star on obverse); BMC 53; Imhoof LS 13; Winterthur 3851; GRPC Lydia 176.</p><p>RPC (p. 492) notes: A very large number of magistrates sign the coins of Philadelphia under Caligula: fifteen are certainly attested for his four-year reign. They give themselves various different descriptions and titles: priest of Germanicus, Olympionikes, victor in the Olympic games, philopatris, grammateus, and in a number of cases philokaisar. The impression created by this variety is that the persons are mentioned just as individuals rather than as holders of any specific magistracy; alternatively, one might think in terms of a board of some kind, as at Hierapolis.</p><p>&quot;Older references identify imperial family members on the reverse but RPC identifies them as Dioscuri. RPC notes, &quot;That the jugate busts probably do not represent Germanicus and Agrippina I, Germanicus and Agrippina as Apollo and Artemis, or Apollo and Artemis (see BMC; Imhoof-Blumer, LS, pp. 116-117; Trillmich, Familienpropaganda der Kaiser und Claudius, pp. 130-131) since the further figure can sometimes be seen to be laureate (e.g. 2023/1 = BMC 53). It must therefore be male, and the two interpreted as the Dioscuri, who had previously appeared on the coinage of Philadelphia.&quot; The Dioscuri are also found on the imperial coinage of Caligula. In addition, since the magistrate named on the reverse is a priest, religious symbolism would be appropriate. The facial features of the reverse busts do, however, resemble members of the family of Caligula. Perhaps the they are Nero and Drusus Caesars as the brothers Castor and Pollux.&quot;-FORVM ANCIENT COINS</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare without star on obverse.</p><p>Obv.: ΓΑΙ(ΟΣ) ΚΑΙΣΑΡ Bare head of Caligula to right </p><p>Rev.: ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ ΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΗΣ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΝΙΚΗΣ Jugate, laureate busts of the Dioscuri to right; palm branch behind.</p><p>Pictures courtesy CNG</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1560717[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1560720[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share coins struck in Philadelphia, or Dioscuri, or anything relevant[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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