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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 3219554, member: 42773&quot;]Congratulations on a nice example of an important type! Vespasian may indeed have been recalling his duty in Galilee by issuing the type, but Buttrey&#039;s characterization of it as &quot;obscure&quot; is incorrect. Double corncupiae (with and without caduceus) are featured on many Greek coins, and the motif was particularly popular in the Levant. One finds it on Seleucid, Judaean, Nabataean, and various autonomous city coins, throughout the 1st centuries BC and AD. In fact, because of its ubiquity in the East, the design is exactly what you would want to put on an imperial coin if you were engaging in a deliberate act of Orientalism.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a later era, close to the end of provincial coinage...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]837884[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Heliopolis.</p><p>Gallienus. AD 253-268</p><p>Æ21, 8.24 g, 6h</p><p>Obv.: IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENIVS avg; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev.: COL IVL AVG FEL; Caduceus between crossed cornucopias // HEL</p><p>Reference: Sawaya – (D110/R280 [unlisted die combination]).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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