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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 5475829, member: 89514"]Finn,</p><p><br /></p><p>A very nice example, but I am not so sure it was struck for Diadumenian as Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the title CEB was added to the obv. legend of Caesars on provincial coins, as for example on the Alexandrian tetradrachm of Diadumenian of Year 2 (after 31 Aug. 217), showing his bare-headed portrait on the obv. with legend</p><p><br /></p><p>MA OΠ AN ΔIAΔOYMENIANOC K CEB. See Sear, Greek Imperial Coins, 3033 with photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Diadumenian's bronze coins at Antioch seem to have begun with rev. type Large S C, small Δ E above, eagle below, all in wreath, coupled with a bare-headed portrait of the Caesar and an obv. legend omitting CE, e.g.</p><p><br /></p><p>KAI O ΔIA ANTΩNINOC (McAlee 754).</p><p><br /></p><p>Later the eagle was omitted from the rev. type, and instead of ΔE above the large S C, the Δ was placed above and the E below. This new variant of the rev. type was coupled with three apparently successive obv. types, namely</p><p><br /></p><p>- Bare-headed, without CE, as before, e.g. McAlee 749.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Bare-headed, with CE, e.g. McAlee 745 and your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Portrait laureate, legend beginning AVT KAI, with or without C for CEB at end, McAlee 753 and 743. See also PeteB's coin above, which is from the same obv. die as McAlee 753's illustrated specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>This last variant, with laureate portrait and legend beginning AYT KAI, is very rare, and I think no one will doubt that, as McAlee states, it must have been struck after Diadumenian's proclamation as Augustus in May 218. Your variant with bare-headed portrait and obv. legend not beginning AVT, however, is Diadumenian's commonest bronze coin at Antioch and seems likely to have been struck while he was still only Caesar, despite the CE at the end of the obv. legend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 5475829, member: 89514"]Finn, A very nice example, but I am not so sure it was struck for Diadumenian as Augustus. Sometimes the title CEB was added to the obv. legend of Caesars on provincial coins, as for example on the Alexandrian tetradrachm of Diadumenian of Year 2 (after 31 Aug. 217), showing his bare-headed portrait on the obv. with legend MA OΠ AN ΔIAΔOYMENIANOC K CEB. See Sear, Greek Imperial Coins, 3033 with photo. Diadumenian's bronze coins at Antioch seem to have begun with rev. type Large S C, small Δ E above, eagle below, all in wreath, coupled with a bare-headed portrait of the Caesar and an obv. legend omitting CE, e.g. KAI O ΔIA ANTΩNINOC (McAlee 754). Later the eagle was omitted from the rev. type, and instead of ΔE above the large S C, the Δ was placed above and the E below. This new variant of the rev. type was coupled with three apparently successive obv. types, namely - Bare-headed, without CE, as before, e.g. McAlee 749. - Bare-headed, with CE, e.g. McAlee 745 and your coin. - Portrait laureate, legend beginning AVT KAI, with or without C for CEB at end, McAlee 753 and 743. See also PeteB's coin above, which is from the same obv. die as McAlee 753's illustrated specimen. This last variant, with laureate portrait and legend beginning AYT KAI, is very rare, and I think no one will doubt that, as McAlee states, it must have been struck after Diadumenian's proclamation as Augustus in May 218. Your variant with bare-headed portrait and obv. legend not beginning AVT, however, is Diadumenian's commonest bronze coin at Antioch and seems likely to have been struck while he was still only Caesar, despite the CE at the end of the obv. legend.[/QUOTE]
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