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AR 79%. 18 coins, 16 obv. dies. The variant legend ending GERM recorded by Sydenham (S71, RIC 621) occurs very rarely (e.g., BMC 418); again the reason is that the engraver has run out of space on the die. I. Michaelidou-Nicolaou, ‘Roman Cappadocian Silver Coins and Imperial Denarii in the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia’, in eds B. Kluge and B. Weisser, XII. Internationaler Numismatischer Kongress Berlin 1997. Akten - Proceedings - Actes (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2000), pp. 698-702, at p. 699 no. 7 describes a very odd coin of Nero. The description implies that it is a Latin drachm (RPC I, 3648) overstruck as a coin of Pontus (Nero and Polemo, as RPC I, 3829ff), although the details of the Latin legend are not clear on the illustration.
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