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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4982291, member: 57495"]I like the type and <i>love</i> the hole. Great buy!</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I just photographed the latest addition to my collection of holey coins, a neat little provincial of Marcus Aurelius with Zeus-Ammon on the reverse. It's an interesting issue, not naming the city it was struck at, and RIC has them listed as</p><p>"<i>Small bronze coins struck at Caesarea in Cappadocia</i>" largely on account of their "<i>peculiar fabric and the rev. type.</i>"</p><p><br /></p><p>A. Kindler ("<i>The Coinage of Bostra</i>") and RPC attribute these instead to Bostra in Arabia, where the Legio III Cyrenaica were stationed at the time. The Legion had Zeus-Ammon as its patron deity, and local finds in the region also turned up specimens of an earlier issue of Antoninus Pius with a similar reverse and the legend LEG III CYR. The most likely explanation seems to be that these were struck specifically for use by the Legion and not the city. Perhaps my example below was pierced and worn as a talisman either by a soldier of the legion or a local (girl? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) it had been given to.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1196930[/ATTACH]<b>MARCUS AURELIUS</b></p><p>AE17 (Holed). 1.85g, 16.6mm. ARABIA PETRAEA, Legio III Cyrenaica stationed at Bostra, circa AD 161-180. RIC IV Online temp #7143; RIC III 1253 (Caesarea); Sydenham, Caesarea 349 (same). O: M ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right. R: COS III, laureate head of Zeus-Ammon right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4982291, member: 57495"]I like the type and [I]love[/I] the hole. Great buy! Today I just photographed the latest addition to my collection of holey coins, a neat little provincial of Marcus Aurelius with Zeus-Ammon on the reverse. It's an interesting issue, not naming the city it was struck at, and RIC has them listed as "[I]Small bronze coins struck at Caesarea in Cappadocia[/I]" largely on account of their "[I]peculiar fabric and the rev. type.[/I]" A. Kindler ("[I]The Coinage of Bostra[/I]") and RPC attribute these instead to Bostra in Arabia, where the Legio III Cyrenaica were stationed at the time. The Legion had Zeus-Ammon as its patron deity, and local finds in the region also turned up specimens of an earlier issue of Antoninus Pius with a similar reverse and the legend LEG III CYR. The most likely explanation seems to be that these were struck specifically for use by the Legion and not the city. Perhaps my example below was pierced and worn as a talisman either by a soldier of the legion or a local (girl? ;)) it had been given to. [ATTACH=full]1196930[/ATTACH][B]MARCUS AURELIUS[/B] AE17 (Holed). 1.85g, 16.6mm. ARABIA PETRAEA, Legio III Cyrenaica stationed at Bostra, circa AD 161-180. RIC IV Online temp #7143; RIC III 1253 (Caesarea); Sydenham, Caesarea 349 (same). O: M ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right. R: COS III, laureate head of Zeus-Ammon right.[/QUOTE]
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