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Triskeles Sale 28 21 Jun 2019
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Struck shortly before Crassus' ill-fated campaign against the Parthians where he was killed, losing nearly the entirety of the Roman forces he had taken with him. RPC identifies the portrait of Crassus' predecessor, Gabinius, but Barkay argues for Crassus based on the dissimilarity of the portrait on this coin to that on the coins of Gabinius. The legend on the reverse, ΓAB [NY], refers to the renaming of the city to Gabinia Nysa under Gabinius, who restored several cities in Syria while he was governor.