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Hi all, I purchased a couple of "mystery" ancient coins and haven't had much luck narrowing down their ID too much. Here's the first:  It appears to be a Roman Provincial with a "city founding" scene on the reverse, which I hoped might help narrow down the ID. But alas, I haven't been able to ID the portrait, either. Any ideas or opinions welcome. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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Without being able to read any part of the inscription it will be difficult to nail it down.
The reverse type was used in quite some of the cities at the Eastern Mediterranean.
Have a look at Beritus, which has a posthumous Augustus in that style.
(Seems there could be something like DIV... behind the portrait.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The first person I thought of was Augustus. The bust could potentially be him and I know he has a few on wildwinds with the two oxen plowing.
I believe it is a Tiberius though. Check RPC_1657 on wildwinds.
Link removed, Hot linking to wildwinds images does not work.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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acsearch Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Philippi, Macedonia 8214. Bronze AE 17, RPC I 1657, VF, Philippi mint, 4.84g, 17.5mm, 0°, obverse TI AVG, bare head right; reverse two priests ploughing right with two oxen; http://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=4861 |
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United States
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Mine isn't as nice as your. Phish is correct it is Tiberius.   |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I am not doubting your ID at all, but I am just wondering what the giveaway is that it is an Augustus of Philippi? To me the portraits on these seem somewhat ambiguous and from Augustus to about Nerva they all seem remarkably similar...and then as Medieval said, these reverse types were used elsewhere too.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I picked that coin because of :  Not exactly scientific analysis :) |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Ahh..Ok. Well spotted style match! As good a reason as any!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm a little confused, because hotlinking usually means making the image display on the board here from their site, but I just linked to the image where you had to click it. Does that not work either?
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Moderator
 Australia
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No, it doesn't, sorry. It just spits back an error message. The only way to link to Wildwinds info is direct to their web pages. If Wildwinds doesn't have a page dedicated to the coin type you want to refer to, you have to say something like "click on the Tiberius page and scroll a bit over halfway down, to the coin labelled Philippi RPC 1657". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oh wow, I had no idea. Thanks.
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