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Formerly RPC I, 2891, but rejected as a forgery by A. Burnett and M. Amandry, Roman Provincial Coinage. Supplement 1 (London and Paris, 1999), p. 35: '2891 JSW has pointed out that the obverse is the same as for the coins of Rhoemetalces in the name of Caligula (RPC 1725 [= https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/58842]). The obvious conclusion is that the 'Colossae' coin has been altered in modern times from a Thracian one. As it is unique, RPC 2891 should be deleted (and so Colossae would disappear from RPC I). Apart from a few Hellenistic bronzes, the first coins were made for Hadrian (vA Phrygiens 11, 546-60; cf. 447-54)'.
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