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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24628349, member: 26430"]Yes that's definitely the name of the magistrate. I promise you, it's a coin of Nero and the name "Tiberius Claudius Kalligenes" is for the local mint official/magistrate, not the person on the obverse. They don't put different parts of one person's name across both sides of the coin. It's just not how it works. This coin is in very typical format for Roman Provincials, and has been published many times with the same interpretation, along with all the other Roman Provincial coins that have the same format. Obverse: Emperor's name and portrait ("ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ") They even give the title afterward, "Caesar" / Junior Emperor. Reverse: Magistrate name ("ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΛΛΙΓΕΝΗΣ") and city name ("ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ"). There's no room for any other interpretation, so if anyone suggested otherwise, I can't believe they're very familiar with Roman Provincial coinage. On my coin it's the same format. He's named on the obverse ("ΝΕΡΩΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ," Nero, with Sebastos being the Greek term for the title Sr. Emperor/Augstus). On the reverse it names the magistrate, Julius Kleon ("ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΚΛΕΩΝ") and the city, Eumeneia ("ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ"). It doesn't mean that my coin is of an emperor named Nero Julius Kleon. Like your coin, it's naming two different people, the Emperor, and the magistrate, who is like a city mayor or something.[/QUOTE]