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8 may well have Roma in a somewhat different pose on the rev. from normal, but does not seem at all to depict ‘Zeus mit Szepter und Adler’. The figure is surely female and the inscription identifies her as ΡΩΜΗ, as is normal. However the inscription is probably variant, since EΦEΣIΩN clearly appears to the r. of the figure, and it may well be that the coin omits any reference to the proconsul or the local ‘magistrate’, although there may be traces of some additional legend to the r.. 9. Lanz 147, 2 Nov. 2009, lot 281, 6.41. In RPC I, it was guessed that the obv. legend was incomplete, but the Lanz specimen clearly demonstrates that the legend is only ΜΕΣΣΑΛΙΝΑΝ.
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