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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7558946, member: 75937&quot;]Here&#039;s a Koinon ... Koinon of Bithynia, that is! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1303540[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sabina, AD&nbsp; 117-137.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 24.8 mm, 8.1 g.</p><p>Bithynia, Koinon of Bithynia.</p><p>Obv: CΑΒЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ, draped bust of Sabina, right, with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane.</p><p>Rev: ΚΟΙ-ΝΟΝ ΒΕΙΘΥΝΙΑϹ, octastyle temple on podium; pellet in pediment; Nikes erecting trophies (?) on raking cornices.</p><p>Refs: RPC III, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1016A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1016A" rel="nofollow">1016A</a>; SNG von Aulock 291.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another Koinon ... Koinon of Thessaly, that is! </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-larissa-jpg.1213109/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ assarion, 6.04 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Koinon of Thessaly, Larissa, AD 158-165.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ; bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right.</p><p>Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘЄϹϹΑΛⲰΝ; Athena Itonia in snake-adorned aegis, striding right, brandishing spear and holding shield.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.1 <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4570" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4570" rel="nofollow">4570</a> (temporary); Rogers 98a, SNG Cop 349; SNG Evelpidis 1685; BCD Thessaly II 966.1 &amp; 966.2.</p><p>Notes: Ex-BCD collection. Issued in three denominations: tetrassarion (RPC 4569), diassarion (RPC 4568), and assarion (such as this coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>And [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]&#039;s favorite Koinon ... the Koinon of Macedon:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macedon-koinon-pseudo-autonomous-jpg.929518/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Time of Severus Alexander, AD 231-235.</p><p>Quasi-autonomous AE 25.1 mm, 11.60 g, 7 h.</p><p>Koinon of Macedon.</p><p>Obv: AΛЄΞANΔPOV, diademed head of Alexander the Great with flowing hair, right.</p><p>Rev: KOINON MAKЄΔONΩN NЄΩ, Alexander, his cloak fluttering behind him and raising right arm, galloping his horse, right.</p><p>Refs: AMNG III 388; cf. BMC Macedonia p.24, 120; cf. Lindgren II 1374.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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