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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7787063, member: 84744&quot;]When I first saw this post, the coin didn&#039;t quite make sense to me... for Damascus, one would expect a G first in the obverse legend (for Gaia), the type isn&#039;t known for Supera in RPC, and the second half of the obverse legend didn&#039;t really make sense.&nbsp; Looks like: ON something-something AVG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hypothesis: this is actually a coin of Salonina.&nbsp; Her first name was Cornelia (not preceded with G) and there are coins of hers from Damascus which have very similar obverses, including the somewhat wonky legend:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/126/8043/8273728.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8273728" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8273728" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8273728</a> (obverse die match?)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/93/5544/5660422.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5660422" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5660422" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5660422</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think?&nbsp; Unfortunately I can&#039;t check RPC for this coin, as that volume hasn&#039;t been published online yet.&nbsp; Does anyone have the reference?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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