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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8255131, member: 85693&quot;]Nobody ever invites me to bacchanalias <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> these days.&nbsp; But always glad to jump in on a CT digital version.&nbsp; I recently got what I assume is infant Dionysos riding a cat - one of my favorites of 2022 so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1455198[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Geta&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 14</b></p><p><b>(c. 198-209 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Bithynia, Nicaea</b></p><p>ΓETAC [KA]ICAΡ, draped bust right / NIKAIEΩN, Dionysos riding panther right.</p><p>See notes for attribution. </p><p>(3.12 grams / 14 mm)</p><p>eBay Feb. 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lot @ $4.70</p><p><b>Note:</b>&nbsp; Only reference to this was Wildwinds, example, which is a rev. die match to mine, but head, not draped bust obverse:&nbsp;&nbsp; JHE auction 11, lot 50.</p><p>Found two others on acsearch, one head, one draped bust, but no references.&nbsp; Draped examples is: Savoca Blue Auction 87, Lot 873, 17.10.2020</p><p>Coin Talk query no reply, March 2022. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of my favorites from last year is another Dionysos from a big lot sent to my by CTer [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER]&nbsp; This one is from Teos in Ionia and is overstruck (double struck?) over another coin of Teos.&nbsp; It was tough (but enjoyable) to figure out, but I found an RPC example that looks a lot like mine, including a note on the overstrike (I don&#039;t often get lucky like this):</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1455208[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Flavian Period?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 19</b></p><p><b>Ionia, Teos</b></p><p><b>(c. 70s-90s A.D.)</b></p><p>ΘEON CYNK[ΛITΩN], laureate and draped bust of Senate right / THIΩN, Dionysus standing left, kantharos in right, thyrsus in left, winged griffin left at feet.</p><p>RPC II, 1042; SNG Cop 1492.</p><p>(Overstruck; see notes)</p><p>(4.19 grams / 20 mm)</p><p>[USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] Oct. 2021 </p><p><b>Attribution Notes: </b> Overstruck on Teos (THIΩN visible from undertype); see RPC example 1:&nbsp; &quot;Coin 1 (P 2902) is overstruck on a coin of Nero (traces of head, r., on rev.... The overstriking (cf. 1043/4 in Winterthur), as well as the die Axis: and the similarity to coins of Domitian, suggests that the coin perhaps belongs to his reign as a smaller denomination.&quot;</p><p>rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1042</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a detail of the over/under strike:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1455209[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The RPC main example looks a lot like mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1455210[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1042" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1042" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1042</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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