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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8081399, member: 87809"]Don't have any Faustina from Bostra, just a Trajan Sestertius, which has seen several attributions Sydenham assigns it to Caesarea, Cappadocia (Sydenham 232), RPC assigns it to Cyrenaika, and finally, Arie Kindler argues convincingly for Bostra where the III Legion Cyrenaica was stationed after being transferred eastward during Trajan’s Arabian campaign, hence the Zeus-Ammon, protector god of Cyrenaica on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arabia Petraea, Bostra, 103 - 111 AD</p><p>28 x is 30 mm, 19.995 g</p><p>Ref.: Kindler, Bostra 5; Sear 1068; Metcalf, Silver P. 83, note 1 (attribution to Cyrene); RPC III 5</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: AYTOKP KAIΣ NEP TPAIANO ΣEB ΓEPM ΔAK Laureate bust of Trajan r., slight drapery on far shoulder</p><p>Rev.: ΔHMAPX - EΞ YΠAT E Head of Zeus-Ammon r.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403249[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8081399, member: 87809"]Don't have any Faustina from Bostra, just a Trajan Sestertius, which has seen several attributions Sydenham assigns it to Caesarea, Cappadocia (Sydenham 232), RPC assigns it to Cyrenaika, and finally, Arie Kindler argues convincingly for Bostra where the III Legion Cyrenaica was stationed after being transferred eastward during Trajan’s Arabian campaign, hence the Zeus-Ammon, protector god of Cyrenaica on the reverse. Arabia Petraea, Bostra, 103 - 111 AD 28 x is 30 mm, 19.995 g Ref.: Kindler, Bostra 5; Sear 1068; Metcalf, Silver P. 83, note 1 (attribution to Cyrene); RPC III 5 Ob.: AYTOKP KAIΣ NEP TPAIANO ΣEB ΓEPM ΔAK Laureate bust of Trajan r., slight drapery on far shoulder Rev.: ΔHMAPX - EΞ YΠAT E Head of Zeus-Ammon r. [ATTACH=full]1403249[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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