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Rev. of coin 1 and 2 certainly reads ƐΦƐϹΙΩΝ across the field; on 1 the legend around has been read as ΡΟΥΦΟΥ [ΑΝΘΥΠΑ]ΤΟΥ (so Stumpf no. 425 following B. Kreiler), although Münsterberg, Beamtennamen read it as ἀνθυ Φοθ ... ΙΟΥ. The more recently discovered 2 certainly reads ΟΥ ΡΟΥΦΟΥ from nine to twelve o'clock with clearly nothing before; from twelve to three o'clock there are other letters which Weiser (EA 20, 1992, p. 123) has read ΕΠΙ ΜΑΙΚΙ; this is probably correct, though not certain (pace Weiser's 'zweifelsfrei'). Another specimen is reported from Turin (Stumpf; W.H. Waddington, Fastes des provinces asiatiques de l'Empire Romain (Paris, 1872), no. 108, reading ...ΡΟΥΦΟΥ ... ΙΟΥ). Obv. and rev. designs are the same as 1071. Weiser identifies Maecius Rufus with the proconsul of the same name who appears as proconsul of Pontus and Bithynia on coins of the reign of Vespasian (RPC II, 601-10). This is possible, although the absence of the title proconsul and the residual doubts about the reading mean that this should not regarded as certain.
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