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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 5142153, member: 75496&quot;]Very interesting article, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]!&nbsp;&nbsp; Also nice coin examples in the article and in response. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one wth the river god Orontes on the reverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; I posted separately a thread this evening on Antioch on the Orontes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1206766[/ATTACH] </p><p>Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD).&nbsp; AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.10 g, 12h). Antioch mint, Seleucis Pieria, Syria. Dated year 29 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII = October-December 3 BC. ΚAIΣAPOΣ ΣΕ-BAΣTOY (‘of Augustus Caesar’), laureate head of Augustus right, bead and reel border / ETOYΣ ΘΚ NIKHΣ ( <i>&#039;Year 29 of the victory&#039;</i>), Tyche, holding palm frond in right hand, seated right on rocky outcropping; at her feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field two monograms and IB (consular date) to right, border of dots. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cf. Michel and Karin Prieur, <i>A type corpus of the Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and their Fractions</i> (London 2000), p. 9 no. 53[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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