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M. Spoerri, ‘Une émission au nom d'Auguste et de Tibère attribuable à Chalcis’, SM 205 (2002), pp. 3-4, publishes 5474/3, a specimen found in 1967 at Eretria in the course of the excavations conducted there by the Swiss archaeological school. She is right to relate this coin to the two specimens in the BCD coll. published as RPC S-5474 (one of which comes from Thessaly). The Eretrian specimen shows a monogram, XA, on the obverse, in front of Augustus’ head. Because of the provenances and the monogram, M. Spoerri interprets the monogram as the abbreviation of Chalcis. But she rightly stresses the difficulties of inserting this coin into the provincial coinage of Chalcis.
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