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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2408256, member: 57495&quot;]I have no idea if this is my rarest, but I like using it as an example of how commonplace the unloved Roman provincial rarity can be.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller I got this from probably found it in an uncleaned lot or junk bin himself, didn&#039;t know what to make of it, and passed it on to me as a freebie when I bought a bunch of $2 coins from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>I managed to attribute it through a single hit on RPC Online (citing only one example). I&#039;ve never seen another one around and doubt I will any time soon - the site of ancient Augusta in Cilicia (near Adana in Turkey) was discovered only in 1955, but that same year submerged underwater when the Seyhan Dam was completed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]497251[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE19</p><p>4.77g, 19.3mm</p><p>CILICIA, Augusta, 183/184 AD</p><p>RPC Online 6170 (temp, Marcus Aurelius) = Karbach, <i>Augusta</i> p.54, 81 (same obv die)</p><p>O: Laureate head of Commodus right, AV KOMODO [...].</p><p>R: AVGOVSTN(sic) ETOY EPD, horse standing right, head turned left; tree to left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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