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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3371278, member: 56859&quot;]This coin caught my eye in my first months of collecting.&nbsp;&nbsp; I saw that it was restruck with modified ring-shaped dies and realized that must be something very unusual, and indeed that is the case.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think there are any other instances of an ancient coin being re-struck with such an unusual die, one which selectively preserved the devices while overstriking the legends. The coin was in a G-N Pecunem auction in their early days before they had so many bidders (many bargains!).&nbsp; I hogged a second example a few years later.&nbsp; One day I hope to buy the unrestruck version of the coin.&nbsp; It is proving more difficult to find that the ring die restrike!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-puzzling-provincial-of-germanicus-and-drusus.264079/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-puzzling-provincial-of-germanicus-and-drusus.264079/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-puzzling-provincial-of-germanicus-and-drusus.264079/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lydia-sardes-germanicusdrusus-1stexample-jpg.415004/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lydia-sardes-germanicusdrusus-2nd-jpg.415005/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>LYDIA, Sardes</b> (... or maybe not)</p><p>Germanicus and Drusus</p><p>Struck CE 23-26?</p><p>restruck (outer portion only; altering the legends) by Asinius Pollio, proconsul of Asia under Caligula, CE 37-38?</p><p>Æ26, 13.78 gm</p><p>Obv: ΔPOYΣOΣ KAI ΓEPMANIKOΣ NEIOI ΘEOI ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOI; Germanicus and Drusus seated left on curule chairs, one holding lituus.</p><p>Rev: ΓAIΩ AΣINNIΩ ΠΩΛΛIΩNI ANΘYΠATΩ; KOINOY/ AΣIAΣ within wreath</p><p>Ref: RPC 2995, Sear 365[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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