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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3236287, member: 85693&quot;]Hello John Anthony - I hope it is okay to resurrect and add on to your old thread, but I thought this might be relevant.&nbsp; Yesterday I got in the mail a mis-attributed AE said to be a Commodus as (eBay).&nbsp; It is a hard-to-photo coin, but I was pretty sure it was not Commodus before I bid (the portrait&#039;s all wrong, even for a Provincial), but I thought it looked interesting and thought it would give me something to research.&nbsp; After a lot of digging, I believe it is Rhesaena (a place I&#039;d never heard of), an issue for Herennius Etruscus showing the priest plowing with oxen. </p><p><br /></p><p>While researching, I did find an online copy of Castelin, at numismatic.org:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan8633" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan8633" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan8633</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Castelin&#039;s article is really detailed, and I am not sure I was interpreting things correctly (die matches, etc.).&nbsp; I was a bit overwhelmed. </p><p><br /></p><p>My new coin appears to be rare - apparently only 3 existed in Castelin&#039;s time, although I&#039;m sure metal detectionists have found some more.&nbsp; Beyond Castelin&#039;s references, I could find only one other online, Roman Provincial Coinage Online:</p><p><a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1593/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1593/" rel="nofollow">http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1593/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I also found this CT post helpful. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine - pretty rough. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]846169[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Herennius Etruscus&nbsp; Æ 25</b></p><p><b>Rhesaena, Mesopotamia&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>(c. 249-251 A.D.)</b></p><p>Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, [ΓAIMEΣ]EPETPOYΣKI[ΛΛIOΣ ΔEKIOΣΣEB] / CEΠ KOΛ ΡHCAINHCIΩN L III P, founder ploughing right with yoke of oxen, eagle above standing left on palm branch, holding wreath in beak, half figure of river god Chaboras swimming right in exergue.</p><p>RPC 1593; Castelin 178-80.</p><p>(12.25 grams / 25 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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