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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2057873, member: 57495&quot;]This coin was an unattributed 2014 seller freebie sitting in my junk pile until I randomly pulled it out earlier this week to take a shot at attributing it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, I guess technically it really is my first of 2015 only in that it&#039;s the first coin of the year to be given a new number in my collection spreadsheet.&nbsp; Just killing time until I get my first proper newps of the year.... but hey, having fun while doing it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]378979[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE19</p><p>4.77g, 19.3mm</p><p>CILICIA, Augusta, 183/184 AD (Year 164)</p><p>Karbach, <i>Augusta </i>p.54, 81 (same obv die); RPC Online Temp 6170 (as Marcus Aurelius, one example cited)</p><p>O: Laureate head of Commodus right, AV KOMODO [...].</p><p>R: AVGOVSTN(sic) ETOY EPD, horse standing right, head turned left; tree to left. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is in pretty rough shape, but the portrait is distinctly Antonine.&nbsp; Attributing it still took some hunting, but eventually some trawling through RPC Online turned it up as a rarely seen issue from a rather obscure provincial mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>Research Trivia: </p><p>The city of Augusta (near Adana in modern day Turkey) was founded in AD 20 on the eastern Cilician plains and named after Livia, widow of Augustus.&nbsp; It was built in a loop of the river Seyhan between some low hills, and its ruins were only discovered in 1955.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the site was never excavated as that same year, the Seyhan Dam was completed and the ruins disappeared beneath its waters.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]378980[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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