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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8056871, member: 110350&quot;]I somehow missed this wonderful thread last year, so I might as well post my COL NEM &quot;Type III&quot; dupondius now:</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus AE (Brass) Dupondius, 9-3 BCE, Colonia Augusta Nemausus [Nîmes] (Gallia Narbonensis province) Mint. Obv. Heads of Agrippa left and Augustus right, back to back, with Agrippa wearing combined laurel wreath and rostral crown, and Augustus wearing oak wreath, IMP above heads and DIVI F below [<i>Imperator Divi Filius</i>] / Rev. Crocodile right standing on two palm branches, chained to palm-shoot standing behind it, with tip of shoot leaning to right; wreath above and to left of palm-shoot, with long ties extending behind shoot to right, COL - NEM to left and right of palm-shoot. “Type III” of Augustus &amp; Agrippa/Crocodile coin (see <a href="https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04" rel="nofollow">https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04</a>).&nbsp; RIC I 158 (p. 52), RPC I 524 (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&amp;number=524" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&amp;number=524" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&amp;number=524</a>), Sear Greek Imperial Coins 157 (D. Sear, <i>Greek Imperial Coins and their Values</i> (1982)], Sear RCV I 1730 (ill.). [<i>See Sear RCV I at p. 337:</i> <i>Commemorates conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE; influenced by Augustus’s settlement of veterans of Egyptian campaign in Nemausus after colony was founded in 27 BCE.</i>] 28 mm., 12.09 g.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1396151[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know which numismatist first pointed out the close resemblance between the crocodile and a galley, or when, but it really is tremendously obvious even to someone like me who isn&#039;t familiar with the predecessor types.</p><p><br /></p><p>My own favorite galley coin is this one, from C. Fonteius (Crawford 290/1) -- even though it has no mast.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1396157[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the apotropaic eye on the side of the galley near the prow. I didn&#039;t even notice it at first, but once someone mentioned it, I couldn&#039;t miss it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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