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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4598887, member: 84744&quot;]I think this idea must be right.&nbsp; The reverse legend fits, too.&nbsp; It must be Aspendos!</p><p><br /></p><p>But who is on the obverse?&nbsp; The only matching hairstyle I can find is this one, on a coin sold by Naumann back in 2014:</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/45/1961/1905705.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1905705" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1905705" rel="nofollow">They attribute it to Fulvia</a>, of all people, I guess based on what looks to be an initial Φ in the obverse legend.&nbsp; The next letters are definitely OVΛ.&nbsp; Maybe the apparent Φ in the obverse legend is really an I with a couple corrosion bumps.&nbsp; So who is it, then?&nbsp; The type exists for Augustus, so it could be Livia.&nbsp; On the other hand, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=&amp;number=&amp;city_id=34&amp;region_id=&amp;province_id=&amp;subprovince_id=&amp;reign_id=&amp;date_min=&amp;date_max=&amp;obverse_inscription_simplified=&amp;reverse_inscription_simplified=&amp;obverse_design=&amp;reverse_design=aphrodit*&amp;metal_id=&amp;weight_min=&amp;weight_max=&amp;diameter_min=&amp;diameter_max=&amp;format=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=&amp;number=&amp;city_id=34&amp;region_id=&amp;province_id=&amp;subprovince_id=&amp;reign_id=&amp;date_min=&amp;date_max=&amp;obverse_inscription_simplified=&amp;reverse_inscription_simplified=&amp;obverse_design=&amp;reverse_design=aphrodit*&amp;metal_id=&amp;weight_min=&amp;weight_max=&amp;diameter_min=&amp;diameter_max=&amp;format=" rel="nofollow">the legends for the Augustus types</a> don&#039;t match very well and the style looks later.&nbsp; If yours is the same as this Naumann example I&#039;m really not sure who it could be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall your portrait is so very Faustina II though that if I had to bet I&#039;d say yours is an unlisted(?) Faustina II Aspendos.&nbsp; [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER], can you find it in any of your references?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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