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Augustus(?) Æ 24mm of Paphos(?), Cyprus. Circa 27-25 BC, countermarked AD 84. Head to right / Blank; c/m: IDC CXP in two lines. For countermark cf. I Nicolaou, "Cypriot bronze Greek Imperial countermarked coins" in Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Numismatics: London, September 1986, p. 213 and M. Amandry Coinage Production and Monetary Circulation in Roman Cyprus (1993), pp. 10-15. 7.25g, 24mm.
Fine.
From a private European collection.
I. Nicolaou read this countermark as IDC GCP and translated it as I(mperator) D(omitianus) C(aesar) G(ermanicus) C(ensor) P(erpetuus) (or C(ensoria) P(otestate)), thus dating it to AD 85 and the celebration of Domitian's Germanic victories. Later, M. Amandry, reading from a better preserved example corrected the lettering to IDG CXP and suggested C(os) X P(robavit) for the second line, moving the date to AD 84.
Fine.
From a private European collection.
I. Nicolaou read this countermark as IDC GCP and translated it as I(mperator) D(omitianus) C(aesar) G(ermanicus) C(ensor) P(erpetuus) (or C(ensoria) P(otestate)), thus dating it to AD 85 and the celebration of Domitian's Germanic victories. Later, M. Amandry, reading from a better preserved example corrected the lettering to IDG CXP and suggested C(os) X P(robavit) for the second line, moving the date to AD 84.