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There is another example in NY, which may have different monograms (they are not very clear; also, the exergue is off flan); this coin also has ΥΠ and ΙΒ in reversed positions. It might be thought that, as the Zeus tetradrachms of Tiberius-Claudius are regarded in this catalogue as representing a different series/mint (4109-21), the Zeus tetradrachm of Augustus of 5 BC should be placed also in this separate series, especially as a newly discovered Zeus tetradrachm of Augustus, which dates probably to about 1 BC/AD (4108), is closely linked to the later Zeus tetradrachms by its reverse style. But this is not so. First, the obv. of the 5 BC tetradrachm is very close to that of the first Tyche tetradrachms. Secondly, the rev. of the 5 BC tetradrachm is very close to that of the posthumous Philips and very different from the Zeus of the later Zeus tetradrachms. Thus it seems that the 5 BC Zeus tetradrachm should be disassociated from the later Zeus tetradrachm series and attributed to Antioch, as a forerunner of the Tyche series.
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