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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5961371, member: 75937&quot;][MEDIA=youtube]8lCI63H1neY[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw this fun little coin going cheap at auction and I thought to myself, &quot;That would make a fine little snack!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1243908[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s not to like? It&#039;s from <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pisidian-antioch.363614/#post-4644180" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pisidian-antioch.363614/#post-4644180">Antioch in Pisidia</a>, it&#039;s an Antonine, and most of all, it&#039;s got a chicken!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1243909[/ATTACH]</p><p>Pseudo-autonomous.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 13 mm, 1.2 g.</p><p>Antioch, Pisidia, time of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Obv: ANTIOCH, draped bust of Mercury/Hermes (head assimilated to portrait of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar), left; to right, caduceus.</p><p>Rev: COLONI, chicken walking right.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.3, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7350" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7350" rel="nofollow">7350</a> (temporary); BMC 19.176,1 (pl. XXXI, 1); SNG von Aulock 4916; Krzyżanowska 140–1, VII.7–9; cf. SNG BN 1067.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post your coins with chickens or fowl of any kind or coins of Antioch in Pisidia! </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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