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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7773900, member: 75937&quot;]Resurrecting this old thread to show this similarly-themed coin of Amastris in Paphlagonia. It&#039;s not the most flattering portrait of the empress, nor is it FDC (but look at the <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/9880" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/9880" rel="nofollow">other museum specimens</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1333373[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial AD 17.2 mm, 4.06 g, 6 h.</p><p>Paphlagonia, Amastris, c. 157-165.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑΥCΤΕΙ-ΝΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: AΜΑCΤ-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ, tripod entwined by serpent, head left.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.1, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/9880" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/9880" rel="nofollow">9880</a>; SNG Cop 258 v.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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