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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 7506676, member: 85693"]Come on, RC, pleasssssse start a countermark sub-collection! With your resources, expertise and energy, you would really be a big help to the Countermark Collecting Community (and, especially, me! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). </p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, since you brought it up, here are two from that "other" Hieropolis, the one in Cyrrhestica (Syria). They are very similar, but I have a weakness for Greek inscriptions in wreaths. Since this is Faustina II's father, they sort of fit in with the OP, I guess <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296975[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Antoninus Pius Æ 19</b></p><p><b>(c. 138-161 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Cyrrhestica, Hierapolis, Syria</b></p><p>[ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡΙ] ΑΝΤωΝƐΙΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ, laureate bust wearing cuirass and paludamentum right / ΘƐΑϹϹΥΡ[Ι] ΑϹΙƐΡΟΠΟ,Δ below, within laurel wreath.</p><p>RPC IV.3 8546; cf. Butcher 15. </p><p>(7.63 grams / 19 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296974[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Antoninus Pius Æ 21</b></p><p><b>(c. 138-161 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Cyrrhestica, Hierapolis, Syria</b></p><p>[ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤWΝƐΙΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ ƐΥϹƐΒ] laureate bust wearing cuirass</p><p>and paludamentum right / ΘƐΑϹ ϹΥΡΙΑϹ ΙƐΡΟΠΟ, Ɛ below, within laurel wreath.</p><p>RPC 6977; cf. Butcher 15. </p><p>(10.05 grams / 21 x 18 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 7506676, member: 85693"]Come on, RC, pleasssssse start a countermark sub-collection! With your resources, expertise and energy, you would really be a big help to the Countermark Collecting Community (and, especially, me! :angelic:). In the meantime, since you brought it up, here are two from that "other" Hieropolis, the one in Cyrrhestica (Syria). They are very similar, but I have a weakness for Greek inscriptions in wreaths. Since this is Faustina II's father, they sort of fit in with the OP, I guess :sorry: [ATTACH=full]1296975[/ATTACH] [B]Antoninus Pius Æ 19 (c. 138-161 A.D.) Cyrrhestica, Hierapolis, Syria[/B] [ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡΙ] ΑΝΤωΝƐΙΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ, laureate bust wearing cuirass and paludamentum right / ΘƐΑϹϹΥΡ[Ι] ΑϹΙƐΡΟΠΟ,Δ below, within laurel wreath. RPC IV.3 8546; cf. Butcher 15. (7.63 grams / 19 mm) [ATTACH=full]1296974[/ATTACH] [B]Antoninus Pius Æ 21 (c. 138-161 A.D.) Cyrrhestica, Hierapolis, Syria[/B] [ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤWΝƐΙΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ ƐΥϹƐΒ] laureate bust wearing cuirass and paludamentum right / ΘƐΑϹ ϹΥΡΙΑϹ ΙƐΡΟΠΟ, Ɛ below, within laurel wreath. RPC 6977; cf. Butcher 15. (10.05 grams / 21 x 18 mm)[/QUOTE]
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