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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8118031, member: 87809&quot;]Yesss <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> last week this Varus coin arrived in my mail box, it is not from Kalkrise. It is the only one I won at Frank&#039;s last auction. Haven&#039;t had the time to weight it yet.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was struck under Publius Quinctilius Varus, Governor of Syria from 7 - 4 BC. Varus guarded the borders from Parthia and violently quelled unrest in Judaea and Samaria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pseudo-autonomous issue</p><p>Æ Trichalkon</p><p>Seleucis and Pieria, Antiocheia ad Orontem; Time of Augustus, dated (ZK) year 27 of the Actian era = 5/4 BC, legate Publius Quintilius Sextus F. Varus</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC 4252, SNG Copenhagen 92; McAlee 87; Butcher 50c; SNG München 640; BMC Galatia p.159, 59; Cohen DCA 402(S)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Laureate head of Zeus to right; dotted border. Anepigraphic</p><p>Rev.: ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ (of the Antiochians under [Publius Quinctilius] Varus Tyche of Antioch seated to right, wearing chiton, peplos and turreted crown, holding palm branch; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right, in right field, date ZK. Dotted border.</p><p>Frank&#039;s picture:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413107[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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