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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 8221009, member: 135271&quot;]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/RfVF325.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ANTIOCHIA ad Orontem </b>(the river) - Syria, Seleucis and Pieria</p><p><u>Obverse</u>: KAIΣAPOΣ ΣE-BAΣTOV - laur <b>head </b>of Augustus right</p><p><u>Reverse</u>: ETOVΣ - ΘK - NIKHΣ - Year (9+20 =) 29 in the Actian Era - after the “Victory&quot; (= the battle of Actium in 31 BC)</p><p>Turreted <b>Tyche </b>of Antioch <u>seated</u> right on rocks - holding curving <u>palm branch</u> - at her feet river god <b>Orontes </b>swimming right with head facing</p><p>In the reverse field two mono-grams:</p><p>(1) “ΥΠΑ” (year) ”ΙΓ” (I+Γ=10+3)= COS XIII (Augustus got the consul-III-title in 2 BC) and</p><p>(2) momgram “ANT” = Antioch</p><p><br /></p><p>Next - a silver Claudius I portrait coin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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