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Imhoof-Blumer says that there is also an 'undeutlicher Name auf zwei Zeilen rechts'. It is conceivable that this might be one of the names which appears on the coins of Vespasian, in which case the coin would belong to his reign (a draped bust would also be appropriate then). However, the letters were read by H. Bloesch, Winterthur II, no. 4126 as ΣΘΙ ... ΣΟΥ... It may, however, be that the letters are actually the other way up and end with the letters ΟΣ and ΙΟΥ, though this is far from certain. Imhoof-Blumer interpreted the object in the field as a Ϙ; if so it would be a numeral (90), and its significance would not be clear, though ninety years before this the first issues of Hierapolis under Augustus and Fabius Maximus (RPC I, 2929-42) were minted. Bloesch, however, interpreted it as 'ein Stierkopf mit aufgesetzer Mondsichel'.
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