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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4222421, member: 74834"]A Roman Provincial civic issue of Antioch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1080772[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>AE Civic issue Antioch, Seleucis, mid-second century AD. Obv. Laureated and draped bust of Apollo t.r. Rev. Lyre. Lettering: above the lyre: Ɛ (= 5), to the right: ETO = 'of the year'). To the left: date. Compare <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7199/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7199/" rel="nofollow">RPC IV, 7199</a>. Maybe the same date, ƐϞΡ (= 195). In that case: Antoninus Pius, about 140. 14 mm, 2.15 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the letter / numerical sign <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa_(letter)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa_(letter)" rel="nofollow">Koppa</a>, see the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Koppa_(letter)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Koppa_(letter)" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia picture collection</a> for some forms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4222421, member: 74834"]A Roman Provincial civic issue of Antioch: [ATTACH=full]1080772[/ATTACH] AE Civic issue Antioch, Seleucis, mid-second century AD. Obv. Laureated and draped bust of Apollo t.r. Rev. Lyre. Lettering: above the lyre: Ɛ (= 5), to the right: ETO = 'of the year'). To the left: date. Compare [URL='http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7199/']RPC IV, 7199[/URL]. Maybe the same date, ƐϞΡ (= 195). In that case: Antoninus Pius, about 140. 14 mm, 2.15 gr. As for the letter / numerical sign [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa_(letter)']Koppa[/URL], see the [URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Koppa_(letter)']Wikimedia picture collection[/URL] for some forms.[/QUOTE]
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