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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 4403789, member: 92212&quot;]Excellent [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER]!!! Thank you for taking the time to study and do such a fine job of writing it all up -- with BEAUTIFUL coins as examples!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is certainly true, but there is an exception to the palm being present on the Flavian design change. There is a 70/71AD issue on which a club appears rather than palm frond. This is neither a beautiful example nor great photo quality, but:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1106571[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased this coin with a listed attribution to the Antioch mint. It certainly looks Antiochene! And indeed McAlee&#039;s outstanding reference on the Romans Coins of Antioch assigns it a number (McAlee 379). However, as McAlee himself (and RPC authors) point out, this type may not have been produced in Antioch.</p><p><br /></p><p>The presence of a club might make one suspect it was a Tyre issue, but current scholarship points elsewhere. Perhaps Caesarea Maritima.&nbsp; Below is the current attribution info I have in my files for my example:</p><p><br /></p><p>Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD.</p><p>AR Tetradrachm. Year 3 = 70/71 A.D.</p><p>Possibly Caesarea Maritima, Judaea.</p><p>Obv.: AYTOKP TITOC KAIΣ OYECΠ Bust laureate right with aegis on shoulder.</p><p>Rev: ETOYΣ Γ IEPOY Eagle with spread wings and wreath in beak standing left on palm branch, <u>club</u> before him.</p><p>Weight: 14.38 gr. (12 hr.).</p><p>Attrib.: RPC II 1967.&nbsp; McAlee 379. Prieur 140.</p><p><i>Historically important Flavian tetradrachm which features Titus.&nbsp; Often found worn, off-center, and/or on an undersized flan.&nbsp; This issue may have been struck in association with the Judaea Capta coins soon after Titus&#039; capture of Jerusalem in 70 AD.&nbsp; (See notes in RPC II, Part I, pg. 276. And also McAlee, pp. 121-122.)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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