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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8180328, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s lovely, [USER=122280]@Niccolo[/USER]! Not a reverse type one sees every day, either!</p><p><br /></p><p>This provincial is one of my favorites of Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/augustus-amphipolis-jpg.1053517/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Augustus, 27 BC - AD 14.</p><p>Roman provincial AE 23.</p><p>Macedon, Amphipolis, 10.25 g, 23.3 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Obv: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ, bare-head, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛΙΕΙΤΩΝ, Artemis Tauropolos with inflated veil, riding on bull wearing Isiac basileion between its horns and galloping right.</p><p>Refs: RPC I, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1626" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1626" rel="nofollow">1626</a>; BMC 5.52,73; SNG Cop 89-91; SNG ANS 164-65; Lindgren 963; Sear Greek Imperial 29.</p><p>Notes: The basileion of Isis is a crown composed of a solar disc with uraeus between two horns, flanked by feathers. On the iconography of the Isiac basileion, see R. Veymiers, &quot;Le basileion, les reines et Actium&quot;, in L. Bricault &amp; M.J. Versluys (eds.), Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis, Leiden 2014, <a href="https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004278271/B9789004278271_010.xml?language=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004278271/B9789004278271_010.xml?language=en" rel="nofollow">p. 195-236 </a> (esp. p. 195-6).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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