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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 7839599, member: 82616&quot;]A few months ago I posted a provincial bronze struck for Titus Caesar at the ancient Jordanian city of Gadara with a crossed cornucopias reverse. <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/off-the-beaten-path-gadara.380586/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/off-the-beaten-path-gadara.380586/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/off-the-beaten-path-gadara.380586/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I was able to purchase the other main reverse type struck at this obscure provincial mint during the Flavian era.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348322[/ATTACH]<b>Titus as Caesar [Vespasian]</b></p><p>Æ17, 3.66g</p><p>Gadara mint, 73-74 AD</p><p>Obv: ΤΙΤΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ; Head of Titus, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev: ΓΑΔΑΡΑ L ΖΛΡ; Turreted head of Tyche, r.</p><p>RPC 2097 (8 spec.).</p><p>Acquired from David Hendin, eBay, August 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gadara was a member of the Greek Decaopolis city league. It produced a fleeting issue of small bronze coinage under Vespasian, most of which were stuck for Titus Caesar. Here we have a somewhat common Tyche reverse type from civic year 137 (73-74 AD) rendered in the mint&#039;s typical crude style. The coin&#039;s main attraction is the Hendin connection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have an obscure provincial?? If so, I&#039;d like to see it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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