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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2463622, member: 76086&quot;]I dont normally patronize Heritage these days but today I stopped there out of curiosity for the first time in a number of years.&nbsp; I spotted this gem which seems to have escaped most notice.&nbsp; I could find no other record of an example being sold, and all the RPC specimens reside in museum collections.&nbsp; RPC notes four examples (one is incorrectly described and is a separate type).&nbsp; One is not photographed, so correct attribution of that example is not yet possible.&nbsp; My research so far makes this one today the 3rd of 4th specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus</p><p>AE35, Lydia, Hypaepa</p><p>Magistrate:&nbsp; Hermolaos II Theophilou (strategos)</p><p>Date:&nbsp; 182-184</p><p>Obverse: ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟС, Laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.</p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; ƐΠΙ ƐΡΜΟΛΑΟΥ Β ΘƐΟΦΙΛΟV СΤΡΑ VΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ, Emperor (Commodus) on horseback, r., brandishing spear; before, lion.</p><p>Countermark on obverse:&nbsp; cult statue of Artemis Anaïtis within oval (Howgego 233).</p><p>RPC IV Online 3417</p><p>[ATTACH=full]516990[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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