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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4005287, member: 87809&quot;]And a few more:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Cistophorus</b>, Capricorn with curved tail</p><p>Ionia, Ephesus, struck ca. 25-20 BC</p><p>25 x 26 mm, 11.77 g</p><p>Ref.: RIC² 477; RPC I 2213; CBN 916; RSC 16;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: IMP• - CAE - SAR Bare head of Augustus to right</p><p>Rev.: AVGVSTVS Capricorn right, head left, carrying cornucopia on back; all within laurel wreath</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1054527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054528[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Æ Dupondius</b>, Colonia Romula (Sevilla), struck after 14 AD under Tiberius</p><p>33 x 34 mm, 25.52 g</p><p>Ref.: RPC I 73; SGI 189; Heiss 393, 2; Cohen 169, 3; Vives pl. CLXVII, 2; Alvarez-Burgos 1587; NAH 1060; SNG Tubingen 118; SNG Copenhagen 421.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: COL ROM PERM DIVI AVG Radiate head of Divus Augustus right; six-rayed star above, thunderbolt r.</p><p>Rev.: IVLIA AVGVSTA GENETRIX ORBIS head of Livia left, set on globe, crescent above</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1054530[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054531[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Æ Dupondius, </b>Gallia, Nemausus ca. 27- 9 BC</p><p>24 x 25 mm, 13.89 g</p><p>Ref.: RIC 154 - 156; Sear 1728; RPC 522</p><p>Class I or an early class II type</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: IMP DIVI•F Heads of Agrippa (left) and Augustus (right) back to back, Agrippa wearing a short beard, a combined rostral crown and laurel wreath and Augustus bare-headed. Both heads crested</p><p>Rev.: COL•NEM Crocodile chained to palm-shoot with tip to right; above on left wreath with long ties</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1054534[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054536[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Æ22, </b>Rhoemetalkes I and queen Pythodoris with Augustus</p><p>Thrace, ca. 11 BC - 12 AD, Countermark X?</p><p>22 mm, 10 g</p><p>Ref.: RPC 1711; Youroukova 204;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: BAΣIΛEΩS POIMHTAΛKOY Jugate heads of Rhoemetalkes, with diadem, and his queen Pythodoris, draped, right.</p><p>Rev.: ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ Bare head of Augustus right. Countermark X?</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1054537[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054538[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and this one, which I happily won in 2019 at the February, 6th&nbsp; cng e-auction after some &quot;bidding fight&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>AR Drachm, </b>Lycian League, Myra, Masicytus, ca. 28/27-19/18 BC</p><p>17.5 mm, 3.16 g, 12 h</p><p>Ref.: Troxell 119.6 Period IV, Plate 23; RPC I 3309; SNG von Aulock 4356</p><p>Ob.: Λ – [Y] Bare head of Augustus right</p><p>Rev.: M - A flanking two lyres, pellet between; plectrum above</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1054549[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054550[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It has long been recognized that the Lycian League&#039;s coins of Augustus&#039;s time show that Lycia, while still nominally free, was already by that time for all practical purposes a part of the Roman Empire. Warren in 1863 remarked, &quot;The Augustan denarius [drachm] of Massikytes. . . illustrates well the position of federalism in Lycia under Augustus, a Roman dependency that still retained its own laws and internal government.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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