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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24864884, member: 26430&quot;]Very interesting coin with the radiate Domitian - as - Apollo/Helios on the obverse and Artemis/Selene on the reverse. (Possibly Domitia - as - Artemis?) Great photos too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t been able to get hold of Haymann&#039;s book either. (Or, haven&#039;t been willing to <a href="https://www.ma-shops.de/jacquier/item.php?id=2445" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ma-shops.de/jacquier/item.php?id=2445" rel="nofollow">pay the 50E + 98E for a new copy shipped from Germany</a>, since I have similar books from so many different mints on my list! Looks like it might be an unrevised reprint of his dissertation, but I can&#039;t find the original online?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I hadn&#039;t considered the contrasting lunar/solar implications on this one before, but now it seems obvious: a Cilician AE29 with opposing crescent (Faustina II <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5720842" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5720842" rel="nofollow">as Selene</a>?) &amp; radiate crown (Helios -- or <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5720842" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5720842" rel="nofollow">Marcus Aurelius as Helios</a>?), this one from Hierapolis-Castabala:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1595063[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote>[ATTACH=full]1595064[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4"><i>This coin illustrated</i> = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4976" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4976" rel="nofollow">RPC IV.3 Online 4976 (temporary), ex. 6</a> = SNG von Aulock 5572 = Robert (1964) 27, pl. XXVI.77 = SNG Levante 1586. </font></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">This coin cited in: Howgego GIC 686 (as Robert 77); Lindgren III p. 47, 840 (citing Levante 1586); Berens &amp; Geske (2004) p. 40, n. 11 (citing Levante 1586); <i>et al.</i></font></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one from Phrygia, Grimenothyrae (<i>temp</i>. Trajan, mag. Lucius Tullius Per-), with Mên on the reverse holding his trademark pinecone, and some kind of crescent on his garb across his shoulders.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1595074[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">This coin = von Aulock, Phrygiens II 340&nbsp; = Lindgren &amp; Kovacs 955 = <a href="https://asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=364&amp;pid=3158" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=364&amp;pid=3158" rel="nofollow">AsiaMinorCoins 3158</a> = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2482" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2482" rel="nofollow">RPC III 2482, ex. 17</a>. </font></p><p><font size="4">Ex Henry Clay Lindgren, Marcel Burstein, and Garth Drewry Collections.</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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