Google Earth| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 2012 25 | |
| Title: | Roman Republican Copper/Bronze Coin | |
| Year: | 2012 | |
| Coin Number: | 25 | |
| Period: | Roman Republican | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Obverse Legend: | ]IVI[ outwards or -AN-?? | |
| Obverse Type: | Profile head facing r., laureate | |
| Reverse Type: | two standing (draped?) figures with (shields?) between them? | |
| Axis Clock: | 4 | |
| Weight Description: | 1.95 | |
| Weight: | 1.95 | |
| Diameter: | 18.5 | |
| Context: | Nezi Field, context 680 | |
| Findspot Description: | Nezi 680, sieve.Continuation of pit 642, Nezi Field, context 680, . | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Notes: | A most interesting coin. The reverse looks like Gaius and Lucius, principes iuventutum, ca. 2 CE, a type not attested in bronze. Could this be a forgery that has lost its silver coating? The axis is wrong for an official issue. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Basket: Nezi Field, context 680 |
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