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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nummus_Superbus, post: 878215, member: 24322&quot;]Markw - it looks different, and is very much different because it is from the series of Roman Provincial coins. These are the coins that were not produced by the main Roman &#039;home&#039; mints but were produced semi-autonomously in lands that were under Roman suzerainty. The legends often are written in a different script to Latin, and on your coin the letters are Greek. This is because the province was Nicaea in Bithnya, Greece. I cannot identify the ruler, which was usually a Roman emperor but the reverse bears the three standards you find on the reverse of these coins. Pity the coin isn&#039;t in slightly better shape. But interesing coin. :thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a similar example found in Wildwinds</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/elagabalus/_nicaea_AE22_RecGen_571.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/elagabalus/_nicaea_AE22_RecGen_571.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/elagabalus/_nicaea_AE22_RecGen_571.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Wildwinds link</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/bithynia/nicaea/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/bithynia/nicaea/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/bithynia/nicaea/t.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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