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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4820259, member: 44316&quot;]Magnesia ad Sipylum (in Lydia, Conventus of Smyrna) is a pretty obscure city. Domitia is a pretty rare empress. The combination makes for a pretty rare coin. Too bad the condition isn&#039;t nicer. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1167516[/ATTACH] </p><p>17-16 mm. 2.61 grams.</p><p>ΔOMITIA CEBACTH&nbsp; (Domitia Augusta)</p><p>MAΓNH CIΠY around counterclockwise from 7:00. River god reclining left with cornucopia. Water flows from tipped-over vase.</p><p>PRC II 986, plate 43. This one is better than the one RPC had to show when they knew of 18 examples for the print edition, but now they know of 20 examples and one of the two new ones is much nicer at Roman Provincial Coins on line: </p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/986" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/986" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/986</a></p><p>They note that all their examples seem to be from the same pair of dies, and so is mine. </p><p><br /></p><p>Domitia became the wife of Domitian in 80 and outlived him by many years, perhaps even as long as in to the reign of Antoninus Pius (more than 40 years after Domitian died). Her Roman imperial coins are rare (she is #148 on Roman Imperial Ruler rarity list of Ras Suarez) and I thought I would never get one, so I bid and won this Roman provincial coin (she is only #49 on the Roman Provincial Ruler rarity list). It fills a hole.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had a thread on coins from Roman provincial cities and there is already a coin of Magnesia ad Sipylum on it, so I am not posting it there:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/page-10#post-2824670" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/page-10#post-2824670">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/page-10#post-2824670</a></p><p>A coin of this city was in the Saturday Night Free for All thread</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/saturday-night-free-for-all.350933/page-16#post-4691114" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/saturday-night-free-for-all.350933/page-16#post-4691114">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/saturday-night-free-for-all.350933/page-16#post-4691114</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have another Domitia to show?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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