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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8252765, member: 110350&quot;]Several examples:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate bust of Nero with aegis, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ / Rev. Bust of Alexandria, right, wearing elephant headdress, AYTO-KPA around, LIB [Year 12] in right field.&nbsp; RPC I Online 5289, Emmett 109.12, Milne 238 at p. 7 [Milne, J.G., <i>Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins </i>(Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)], K&amp;G 14.88. 20x23 mm., 12.11 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454340[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian AR Denarius, Travel Series, Rome Mint, 130-133 AD (according to RIC II.3) [<i>134-138 AD according to Mattingly &amp; Sydenham in old RIC II</i>]. Obv. Bare head left, HADRIANVS - AVG COS III PP / Rev. Africa reclining left, leaning with left elbow on rock, wearing elephant-skin headdress, holding scorpion with extended right hand and cradling cornucopiae with left hand and arm, basket of grain-ears to left at her feet, AFRICA. RIC II.3 Hadrian 1497 (2009 edition) (see&nbsp; <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.1497);" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.1497);" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.1497);</a> old RIC II Hadrian 299 (1926 ed.) <i>var.</i> (head right), RSC II Hadrian 137, Sear RCV II 3459 <i>var. </i>(laureate head left), BMCRE III Hadrian 821 <i>var</i>. (this type cited at BMCRE 821 fn. at p. 344); Foss 81 at p. 117 (dating Hadrian’s travels in the province of Africa to AD 128) [Clive Foss, <i>Roman Historical Coi</i>ns (Seaby, London, 1990)]. 18 mm., 3.31 g. <i>Purchased from Akropolis Ancient Coins, Jan. 2022.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454347[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus, AR Denarius 207 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, SEVERVS - PIVS AVG / Rev. Africa in elephant-skin headdress standing facing, head right, holding out drapery containing basket of fruit[?], lion crouching to her right at her feet, head left, PM TR P XV CPOS III PP. RIC IV 207, RSC III 493, Sear RCV II 6341. 18.73 mm., 2.95 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex. Madroosi Collection (Joe Blazick).</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454343[/ATTACH]</p><p>Next: Another provincial Nero.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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