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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3533731, member: 87809&quot;]Æ Semis:</p><p>Seleucis &amp; Pieria, Antioch, 14 - 15 AD Dated RY 1 and 45 of the Actian Era (14 AD)</p><p>25 mm, 13.82 g</p><p>Ref.: RPC I 4270; McAlee 216; BMC Galatia 150</p><p>Ob.: ΣЄBAΣTO ΣЄBAΣTOY KAIΣAP Bare head right</p><p>Rev.: A / ЄΠI ΣI / ΛANOY / ANTIO / XЄΩN / ЄM&nbsp; in six lines within laurel wreath</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]939018[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]939019[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Legate series. Q. Caecelius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus. Dated RY 1 and 45 of the Actian Era (14). There is some reason to believe that the Augustan issues had commenced in ca. 7 BC to provide allusions to contemporary proconsuls at a time when there was special need of the amici. The governors selected by Augustus (or by the cities at a hint from him) for these honors were without exception amici principi, and every one of them was related to him, —a most important factor in amicitia. Now, in 21 AD, under Tiberius, the princeps was again sponsoring a new successor of his own blood, just as Augustus had in 7 BC.</p><p>Tiberius, with close attention to an Augustan precedent, selected this great Augustan anniversary to authorize Roman colonies in Africa to honor his friends who were governors of that province. This honor took the form of a record of their permissus, and in the first instance, of portrayal. Moreover, it may well have been as a result of a similar authorization that the peregrine cities of Asia—the only other consular senatorial province—began a little earlier to record too their proconsuls who were all amici principis. The coins of these Asian cities were of course Greek. Indeed, outside Africa, only one Tiberian governor has a permissus recorded on a Latin coinage. This was another consular, Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus Augusti propraetore in Syria, — yet again an amicus principis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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