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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3164851, member: 80804&quot;]On the left you have a Provincial issue from Zeugma, Commagene - as far as I can see - as corroborated by what&#039;s legible in the obverse legend between 8:00 and 11:00: &quot;...PAIAN(AΔΡΙΑ?)...&quot; - i&#039;d say it&#039;s likely to be Hadrian although Trajan is possible.</p><p>On the right, you have another Provincial from an eastern mint. This sort of Tyche reverse is common for Antioch and a number of other cities in the &quot;northern Mesopotamia&quot; area like Singara, Edessa, Rhesana and Nisibis.</p><p>The amount of time the more eastern Mesopotamian cities were under Imperial rule was pretty well limited to the 3rd century, and the portrait, however, strongly favors Antoninus Pius. (More than this established portrait of A. Pius below matches his Imperial issue portrait - on Provincials the portraiture can be all over the place)</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album267/14_Ant_Pius_Laodicea_AE_27.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/14_Ant_Pius_Laodicea_AE_27?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/14_Ant_Pius_Laodicea_AE_27?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/14_Ant_Pius_Laodicea_AE_27?full=1</a></p><p>This is a known Antoninus Pius from Laodicea ad Mare (on the Mediterranean coast near Antioch) - although this has right-facing busts as opposed to yours which face left, that can be a variety-specific variant. I&#039;m not saying yours is necessarily from Laodicea, but that&#039;s the general area you should be looking in since during Antoninus&#039; time, only the more westerly of the Levantine/Syria/Mesopotamia northern cities were under Roman rule.</p><p>The piece below is a 29mm Æ by Philip I from Zeugma and is the more common larger-size Æ, although 22mm Æ&#039;s are fairly common from Zeugma, too - I don&#039;t have a decent specimen to show a smaller one, unfortunately, alhough if you navigate &quot;up&quot; from these single shots to the pages they&#039;re on, there is a 21mm Ant Pius Æ from Zeugma on the Mesopotamia page (seeing which would add nothing to the discussion).</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album270/03_Philip_I_Zeugma_AE_29.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album270/03_Philip_I_Zeugma_AE_29?full=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album270/03_Philip_I_Zeugma_AE_29?full=" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album270/03_Philip_I_Zeugma_AE_29?full=</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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