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Provincial: Side in Pamphylia
Winsemann Falghera 2690/SNG Pfaelzer Privatsammlungen 882
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AYT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEBCIΔHTΩN NEΩKOPΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right, over eagle facing with wings spread, E countermark beforeAthena standing left, holding palm right, dropping pebble into amphora left. Pomegranate on stem behind.
cf. BMC 104
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AVT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛ[ΛIHNOC] CEBCIΔHTΩN NEΩKOPΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeAthena standing right, holding spear in right hand and uncertain object with left, with shield and palm at feet right, pomegranate in left field.
unknown
Æ30
AVT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEBCI_Δ_H_TΩN / NEΩKO / PΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeEmperor standing left, holding scepter right and patera left, in hexastyle neokorate temple.
On further reflection, the figure may be Apollo Sidetes, as here, and the temple not Neokorate.
SNG Copenhagen 434,
BMC 127
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KAI CEB ΠOV ΛIK KOPO VAΛEPIANON CACIΔHTΩN N_EΩKOPΩN
Bare-headed draped bust (of Valerian II) right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark before.Athena standing left, holding long palm right, dropping pebble into amphora.
cf. Lindgren III, 668a
Æ30
AVT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛI[HNOC] CEBCIΔHTΩN NE_Ω_KOPΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeApollo Sidetes standing left, holding patera left and scepter right.
cf. Lindgren III, 668a
Æ30
[AVT] KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛIHN[OC CEB][AΠ]OΛΛΩNO_C CIΔHTΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeApollo Sidetes standing left, holding patera left and scepter right. NE_Ω_KOP in exergue.
BMC 120var
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KOPNHΛIA CAΛΩNINA CEBACIΔHTΩ_N N_EΩKOPΩN
Diademed draped bust right, eight-pointed star above, E countermark beforeAthena standing left, holding temple left and spear right, shield by her feet right.
SNG Copenhagen 430
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KOPNHΛIA CAΛΩ[NINA CEBA]CIΔHTΩ_[N N_EΩ]KOPΩN
Diademed draped bust right, eight-pointed star above, E countermark beforeApollo facing holding spear in right hand and leaning with left arm on column.
Provincial: Lyrbe in Cilicia
unknown
Æ33
AVT K ΛIK OVAΛEPIANOC CEBΛVPB[_EI_]TΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right, flower? behind head, E countermark beforeAthena standing left, scepter left and shield right.


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Imperial attributions are based on Göbl Moneta Imperii Romani 36, 43, 44 Die Münzprägung der Kaiser Valerianus I, / Gallienus / Saloninus, Regalianus und Macrianus / Quietus.
Alexandrian attributions are based on Emmett Alexandrian Coins and Milne Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins.
Other provincial attributions from:
SNG Copenhagen,
SNG von Aulock,
SNG France 2 Cilicie,
SNG France 3 Pamphylie / Pisidie / Lycaonie / Galatie,
SNG France 5 Mysie,
Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum Collection,
David R. Sear Greek Imperial Coins and their Values,
Lindgren & Kovacs Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant from the Lindgren Collection,
Lindgren Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European Mints from the Lindgren Collection,
Lindgren Lindgren III Ancient Greek Bronze Coins from the Lindgren Collection,
Ivan Varbanov Greek Imperial Coins (2002, in Bulgarian),
Ivan Varbanov Greek Imperial Coins (2005, in English),
W.H. Waddington, E. Babelon, Th. Reinach Recueil Général des Monnaies Grecques d'Asia Mineure,
Alfred R. Bellinger Troy the Coins,
David MacDonald The Coinage of Aphrodisias,
David MacDonald An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus,
David Yonge The So-Called Interregnum Coinage, 1979 Numismatic Chronicle,
the Moushmov translation at Wildwinds,
Ed Snible's Digital Historia Numorum,
or cribbed from the seller's info.

Information on the legions is from Graham Webster The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D.