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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4972817, member: 75937"]This is a very hard question to answer, but after a lot of thought, I think it's this one. It's interesting because it had never before been described in the numismatic literature and it took a lot of effort -- and help from other CT members -- to attribute it. See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-to-attribute-an-unpublished-coin-a-13-step-program.361185/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-to-attribute-an-unpublished-coin-a-13-step-program.361185/">this thread</a>. It's now the "plate coin" at RPC:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-apamea-jpg.1126774/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 5.84 g, 22.0 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Bithynia-Pontus, Apamea.</p><p>Obv: FAUST[INAC AUG], draped bust of Faustina II, right.</p><p>Rev: UЄNU[S ... C]ICA dd, Venus seated right, head left, on dolphin swimming left, resting right arm on dolphin, uncertain object in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.1, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11815" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11815" rel="nofollow"><i>11815</i></a> (temporary); Waddington <i>RG</i> --; BMC --; Sear --; Mionnet Suppl 5 --; Lindgren --; Wiczay --.</p><p>Notes: Previously unpublished. Obverse die match to Waddington <i>RG</i>, pl. XXXIX.1, which has a Neptune reverse type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4972817, member: 75937"]This is a very hard question to answer, but after a lot of thought, I think it's this one. It's interesting because it had never before been described in the numismatic literature and it took a lot of effort -- and help from other CT members -- to attribute it. See [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-to-attribute-an-unpublished-coin-a-13-step-program.361185/']this thread[/URL]. It's now the "plate coin" at RPC: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-apamea-jpg.1126774/[/IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman provincial Æ 5.84 g, 22.0 mm, 7 h. Bithynia-Pontus, Apamea. Obv: FAUST[INAC AUG], draped bust of Faustina II, right. Rev: UЄNU[S ... C]ICA dd, Venus seated right, head left, on dolphin swimming left, resting right arm on dolphin, uncertain object in left hand. Refs: RPC IV.1, [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11815'][I]11815[/I][/URL] (temporary); Waddington [I]RG[/I] --; BMC --; Sear --; Mionnet Suppl 5 --; Lindgren --; Wiczay --. Notes: Previously unpublished. Obverse die match to Waddington [I]RG[/I], pl. XXXIX.1, which has a Neptune reverse type.[/QUOTE]
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