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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5135437, member: 75937&quot;]Superb portraits are ... well ... <i>unusual</i> in the Roman provincial series. Often, they are crudely rendered, such as these of Caligula and Caracalla, respectively:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204965[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204966[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, it&#039;s always a delight to see such an artistic portrait such as yours, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>This one has perhaps the nicest portraits of any provincial coins in my collection. You&#039;ll even enjoy that it depicts a couple of Flavians!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204967[/ATTACH]</p><p>Domitian, AD 81-96, and Domitia, AD 82-96.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 24 mm, 9.45 g.</p><p>Cilicia, Anazarbus, city year 112 = AD 93/4.</p><p>Obv: ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΥΙ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕ ΓΕΡ, laureate head of Domitian, right; behind, star.</p><p>Rev: ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΩΝ ΔΟΜΕΤΙΑ ⳞΕΒΑⳞΤΗ, ΙΒ-Ρ (in field), draped bust of Domitia, left.</p><p>Refs: RPC II 1749; SNG France 2019-20; BMC 9; Ziegler 76 (obv 1/rev 3); SNG Levante 1374.</p><p>Notes: Double die match to <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749" rel="nofollow">RPC specimen</a> (Roma Numismatics XVIII, 29 Sept. 2019, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6334018" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6334018" rel="nofollow">lot 758</a> (ex Künker 236, 7 Oct. 2013, lot 1025)) and the SNG Levante plate coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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