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ID:     Z338
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Provincial
Region:     UNCERTAIN PROVINCIAL MINTS
City:     Uncertain Mints
Issuer:     Augustus
Date Ruled:     AD 27 -14
Metal:     Bronze
Denomination:     As
Date Struck:     BC 3-2
Diameter:     23 mm
Obverse Legend:     AVGVST TR POT
Obverse Description:     Laureate head of Augustus right.
Reverse Legend:     t/CA
Reverse Description:     Laurel wreath around circle enclosing very small T above C . A.
Mint:     Pergamum
Primary Reference:     RIC 504?
Reference2:     BMCRE 743
Reference3:     RPC 4106
Reference4:     AMC 718
Photograph Credit:     Beast Coins
Source:     http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/beastcoins/
Notes:     Background: A rare AE As of Augustus from an uncertain Eastern mint. RIC (Rev. Ed.) notes, in a footnote at p. 82: 'Attribution of these coins, bearing the numerals(?) L T , is uncertain. Although the portraiture differs from that of the other coins with CA, they are here provisionally assigned to Pergamum. Grant (FITA p.344) gave them to Phoenicia.' RPC attributes it to an uncertain mint in Syria or Phoenicia. RPC, p. 603. Grant interpreted the letters L T as a date (330) of the era of Alexander the Great (commencing in 336 B.C.), and concluded that the coins were struck in Sidon in 6 BC to celebrate its liberty (From Imperium to Auctoritas, pp. 344-45), but this interpretation is controversial. If correct, the coin was struck in 3/2 B.C. RIC(2) 504 ('Rare').