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ID:     77000504
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Provincial
Region:     UNCERTAIN PROVINCIAL MINTS
City:     Uncertain Mints
Issuer:     Augustus
Date Ruled:     27-14 BC-AD
Metal:     Bronze
Denomination:     AE 25
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 27-14
Diameter:     25 mm
Weight:     17.99 g
Die Axis:     12 h
Obverse Description:     Bare head right
Reverse Description:     Spear, sella quaestoria, and fiscus; Q below sella
Primary Reference:     RPC I 5409.21 (this coin illustrated)
Reference2:     AMNG II 29 (Pella) note
Reference3:     FITA 13-19 (Thessalonica[?])
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=114927
Grade:     Near VF, black-green patina with traces of lighter green.
Notes:     Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 504 From the Patrick Villemur Collection.The similarity of this coin's reverse to that of Aesillas led to the earlier attribution of this issue to Macedonia. Unlike the more typical club of Hercules, the presence of a spear (hasta) suggested the issuer to be an as-yet-unknown quaestor propraetore, who, unlike Aesillas, would have held the power of imperium. Based on this assumption, Grant gave the issue to M. Acilius at Thessalonica, whom he tentatively identified as Caesar's governor of Macedonia in the final year of the Dictator's life.The style of the portrait is identical to a coin of the possible Cilician Colonia Iulia Veteranorum (RPC I 4082). That coin bears the additional obverse legend PRINCEPS FELIX, a title which clearly identifies the portrait as Augustus. Imhoof-Blumer and Grant both assigned the forementioned issue and our coin to the southwestern areas of the Black Sea, but to date no specimen of our coin has turned up in sites there, as one might expect if that region were its point of origin. The patination, typical of Syria, may lend support for locating this coin there; at present the lack of conclusive evidence seems to preclude a more certain attribution.