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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6541033, member: 109923"]That's a very interesting coin. I haven't seen an overstruck Romano-British coin. Presumably Victorinus was fair game by that point, being an emperor of a failed Gallic breakaway state when Carausius wanted to endear himself to Diocletian (and not look like an emperor of a breakaway state).</p><p><br /></p><p>I have this Hemiassarion from Sardes, Lydia, overstruck at the time of Vespasian.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Sardes Hemiassarion, 69-79AD</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1262025[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b>Lydia. Bronze (AE19), 12.5mm, 2.48g. Obverse: EΠI TI KΛAY ΦIΛEINOY CTΡA (Ti. Cl. Phileinos magistrate), draped bust of Mên wearing Phrygian cap. Reverse: CAΡ/ΔIA/NΩN (Sardisian) within laurel wreath (RPC II 1307).</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It's overstruck on a coin of the same city, possibly of Nero. On the obverse, "CAPΔ" is discernible just below the bust (for <b>CAΡΔ</b>IANΩN, Sardisian, as seen on the reverse of the new coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse, there's "KAIC" upside down at the top. Nero struck a hemiassarion in Sardes around 65AD with the obverse legend NEPΩN <b>KAIC</b>AP (Nero Caesar), with Hercules on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it was quite common for Roman emperors to obliterate their predecessors like this, at least when they were no longer revered![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6541033, member: 109923"]That's a very interesting coin. I haven't seen an overstruck Romano-British coin. Presumably Victorinus was fair game by that point, being an emperor of a failed Gallic breakaway state when Carausius wanted to endear himself to Diocletian (and not look like an emperor of a breakaway state). I have this Hemiassarion from Sardes, Lydia, overstruck at the time of Vespasian. [B]Sardes Hemiassarion, 69-79AD [ATTACH=full]1262025[/ATTACH] Lydia. Bronze (AE19), 12.5mm, 2.48g. Obverse: EΠI TI KΛAY ΦIΛEINOY CTΡA (Ti. Cl. Phileinos magistrate), draped bust of Mên wearing Phrygian cap. Reverse: CAΡ/ΔIA/NΩN (Sardisian) within laurel wreath (RPC II 1307).[/B] It's overstruck on a coin of the same city, possibly of Nero. On the obverse, "CAPΔ" is discernible just below the bust (for [B]CAΡΔ[/B]IANΩN, Sardisian, as seen on the reverse of the new coin). On the reverse, there's "KAIC" upside down at the top. Nero struck a hemiassarion in Sardes around 65AD with the obverse legend NEPΩN [B]KAIC[/B]AP (Nero Caesar), with Hercules on the reverse. I think it was quite common for Roman emperors to obliterate their predecessors like this, at least when they were no longer revered![/QUOTE]
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