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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8175744, member: 110350&quot;]Saloninus Caesar (son of Gallienus), Billon Antoninianus, 258-260 AD, Cologne Mint. Obv. Radiate draped bust right, SALON VALERIANVS CAES/ Rev. sacrificial implements (lituus, jug, simpulum, and sprinkler), PIETAS AVG. RIC V-1 9, RSC IV 41, Sear RCV III 10767 (ill.).&nbsp; 20.5 mm., 3.13 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428734[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: A Roman Provincial coin with a bust of Sabina, like this one, the second of my NYINC purchases that I&#039;ve written up:</p><p><br /></p><p>Sabina (wife of Hadrian) Billon Tetradrachm, Year 15 (130/131 AD), Alexandria, Egypt mint. Obv. Draped bust right, wearing double stephane, with hair coiled and piled on top of head, ϹΑΒΙΝΑ - ϹƐΒΑϹΤΗ / Rev. Sabina (as Demeter) seated left on throne without back, hair plaited over stephane, wearing chiton and peplos, holding two ears of corn with right hand extended, and, with left hand, holding long scepter, ϹΑΒƐΙΝΑ ϹƐΒΑϹΤΗ around; LΙΕ [Year 15] at 11:00 on reverse between ears of corn and Sabina&#039;s head. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5773 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5773" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5773" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5773</a>;&nbsp; BMC 16 Alexandria 917 at p. 106 [Poole, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; Emmett 1334.15 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1308 at p. 32 (differentiated at p. 152 from Milne 1309, on basis of reverse hairstyle) [Milne, J.G., <i>Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins </i>(Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)], ill. at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/56405" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/56405" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/56405</a> [Specimen No. 10 of RPC 5773, held by Oxford, Ashmolean Museum]; Sear RCV II 3954. Purchased from Zuzim Inc. on Jan. 14. 2022 at NYINC 2022. 24 mm., 12.309 g.*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428736[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*One of only two basic reverse types of Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm with a bust of Sabina on obverse; the other type shows Sabina standing on reverse. Various subtypes exist with different legends (ϹΑΒΙΝΑ vs. ϹΑΒƐΙΝΑ) and hairstyles (queue vs. upswept) on both sides.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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