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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3298543, member: 85693&quot;]Nice find, Maridvnvm - a while back this was mis-attributed AE, said to be a Commodus as, came up on 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is from Rhesaena, an issue for Herennius Etruscus showing the priest plowing with oxen.&nbsp; Rough, but pretty scarce. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/rhesaena-meso-herennius-etrus-nov-2018-0-jpg.846169/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Herennius Etruscus Æ 25</b></p><p><b>Rhesaena, Mesopotamia </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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