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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4523638, member: 19463&quot;]I do not know the details but there have been a lot of these in sales lately.&nbsp;&nbsp; My first was from FSR in February 2018 but he had others in sale later that year so he must have bought a bag of them.&nbsp; I have seen them from several sellers.&nbsp; Most common seems to be year 5 (ETE).&nbsp; Mine has the short form reverse city name KAI and denotes the second neocourate with BNE. [ATTACH=full]1120685[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In April 2018, I bought another, also from Frank.&nbsp; Had I known this one was coming I never would have bid on the first.&nbsp; Word that they were suddenly common was getting around and I won this one for quite a bit less than the first.&nbsp; This year four has the long form legend where BNE was moved to the center and both the city name and &#039;year&#039; are spelled out.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120684[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The mountain type was made as early as Domitian and common in the Severan period.&nbsp; Below is Septimius from year 2 both in silver and bronze.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120687[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1120688[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My year 5 Caracalla as Caesar is the darkest shiny black silver coin I have.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120689[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A favorite of mine is the Elagabalus bronze (as usual for AE with the mountain on a table).&nbsp; This year three portrait makes him look almost normal.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120697[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the coins you see are from a few common years suggesting many more were made then.&nbsp; I do not believe that there are coins from each year but I do know a collector who specializes in Caesarea and should ask him if we ever see each other again after coin shows resume.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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