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New comment (2024), with thanks to P. Villemur: these coins were formerly attributed to Tyndaris in RPC, following P. Pitotto, ‘Un esemplare di Mussidio Longo per Augusto e la questione della zecca di Tindari’, Annotazioni Numismatiche 22, Giugno 1996, p. 494) and others, but the new coin no 10 in the PV collection has a clear ethnic and shows that they must be given to Agrigentum (P. Villemur, 'Les émissions augustéennes frappées à Agrigente au nom des proconsuls de Sicile L. Mussidius et Sisenna', BCEN 61.2 (2024), p. 6-16). Since other specimens offer a legend running around the wreath on the reverse (3, 8 and 9) including the names of the duovirs L. STA(tius) and P. COTTA which also appear on the coins of Sisenna procos. (RPC I, 668), the latter group must also be attributed to this municipium in spite of Martini's reservations (p. 71 n. 51). R. J. A. Wilson advises us that Cotta is probably a Latinized version of a Greek name (and a Κoτης appears at second century Agrigentum and Malta), while a Κoτας is attested from the same period in Camarina (P.M. Fraser and E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names vol. III.A (Oxford, 1997), p. 256). And BA on 668 (see below) might be the beginning of a Greek name and there are plenty of candidates (see Lexicon). The original numbering of specimens has been changed: delete 627/5 (Cop 1100), 627/6 = 627/5, 627/7 = 627/6, 627/8 = 627/7 , 627/8 is a new specimen and 627/9 = 627/1. See the article by Villemur for a very full discussion and a die study.
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