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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientone, post: 2465851, member: 71599&quot;]Very nice Drusus Pishpash! The black and brown is sweet and I wont tell if you clean the dirt off of the eye. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Here&#039;s my Provincial Drusus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]517766[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Uncertain city, Drusus AE18. Amphora countermark </b></p><p>Obv. DPOVSOS KAISAP, Juvenile head of Drusus. </p><p>Rev. MENOFANTOY KAPAKI..., Caduceus. </p><p>18mm and 4.2gm. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This coin, evidently of Asia Minor, but particularly of that part situated about the Maeander and Hermus, is probably of a place called Characa, mentioned by Strabo as situated on the road from Tralles to Nysa, and at equall distances. Stephanus speaks also of a city of Charax in Lydia, which he identifies with Tralles.&quot; J. Millingen, Sylloge of Ancient Unedited Coins of Greek Cities and Kings ... 1837, p. 79 (pl. 4, 56 (*).</p><p>Howgego 369, amphora countermark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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