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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 3740753, member: 4298&quot;]Wow [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER], you initiated a most interesting thread, I&#039;m speechless with all those beauties</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I&#039;m probably here the one living the closest to Lyon (40 miles) I don&#039;t have so many coins from that city (I have a few though)</p><p><br /></p><p>I will only show you one, which hasn&#039;t been shown yet in this thread, and worth adding IMO</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0081-310np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Galba, As - </b> Lugdunum mint, AD 68</p><p>SER GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG PON M TR P PP, Laureate head of Galba right</p><p>Rome seated left, SC in field</p><p>10,60 gr</p><p>Ref : Cohen #182, RIC - (see RIC # 141), see BM #248 (same obverse die), Gorny&amp;Mosch auction 76, 22.04.1996, n° 405 and Müller auction 15, 19-20.09.1975, n° 152. (same dies) </p><p><br /></p><p>A friend of mine, writing his PhD thesis about the coinage of Galba has made a comprehensive study, finding only less than 20 asses struck in Lyon for Galba, and only three others showing this particular obverse legend ending with TR P PP instead of TR POT. The specimen in BM has been apparently misread either by BMC authors than RIC authors, due to the coin being worn. But as it&#039;s undoubtely the same obverse die it should be read as TR P PP instead</p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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