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Rec thought that the date was either wrongly read or wrong, sinceyear 122 = AD 76/7, but Domitian's second consulship was in 73 (cf. RPC II, 715), and suggested CXXII might be a mistake for CXIIX; indeed, the obv. legend, If correctly read and restored, is the same as used in that year and different from that used in year 120. On the other hand it is not impossible that a poor coin read AVG [F CO]S IT[ER] when the legend was actually AVGVSTI FIL as on RPC II, 717. A coin of Domitian for year 122 would certainly be expected, as we now have the rest of the set, for Vespasian and Titus. Other doubts about the reading arise: FE is unexpected. The coin which was recently acquired by the Coin Cabinet in P seems to be the Prowe coin, as the reading of the legends in Rec fits perfectly with the actual coin. The reverse does not figure an ‘altar with horns’, but a bearded head in archaic style of Dionysus, as in RPC III, 1226, 1228A, 1229.
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