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Coin Type: Billon antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus, 268-270 CE Mint and Date: Antioch, 2nd issue, 269-270 CE. Size and Weight: 20mm x 21mm, 3.1g Obverse: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind. IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG Reverse: Isis in typical headdress standing facing, head left, situla in left hand behind, sistrum held out in front at shoulder level in right hand. SALV - S AVG Exergue: • Provenance: diggetal1947 (eBay), December 2006 Ref: RCV (2005) 11370 var, RIC V 217 var (• in exergue). BW Ref: 022 030 097 |
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Note: Finn Johannesen, "Gladius"
on Forvm, says: "The pellet is the mark of the second issue of
Antioch, this coin is not common with this exergue mark but well known. (...) Much scarcer than its left
facing brethren you see all the time listed as 'rare'."
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