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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PeteB, post: 3244624, member: 99412&quot;]John Slocum wrote in his &quot;Another look at the coins of Hatra,&quot; &quot;The reverse type of the large Shamash coins is undoubtedly an inept imitation of the familiar issues of Antioch, their SC (printed backward in his paper, reflecting the coins) a mirror image of the SC of the Greek Imperial pieces. Dieudonne believed that the prototype was the coinage of Antoninus Pius, upon which, according to the French numismatist, the eagle and the letters SC&nbsp; appeared for the first time.&quot; And &quot;It should be noted, however, that on the Antiochene coinage under Antoninus Pius, the eagle on the reverse is below and not above the letters. The reverse of the large coins of Shamash were more likely a synthesis of the eagle so prominent on the reverse of the tetradrachms of Antioch with the SC on the reverse of the Senatorial bronzes.&quot; Ref: The American Numismatic Society Museum Notes 22 (1977).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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