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is this coin a portrait of King Juba or Caesar Augustus
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [IMG]https://travelfranceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vercingetorix_stater_CdM.jpg[/IMG] this is actually a portrait of Apollo [/QUOTE]prove it's Apollo [/qb][/QUOTE]it is Apollo Belenus to be exact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belenus on the reverse is a depiction of a horse which is sacred to this god [IMG]https://i0.wp.com/www.coinsofplanetearth.com/wp-content/uploads/Ambiani-AV-Quarter-Stater-CNG.jpg?resize=800%2C386[/IMG] GAUL, Northeast. Ambiani. 2nd century BC. AV Quarter Stater (14mm, 2.03 g, 10h). Somme Valley – Trumpet Type, Class Ib. Celticized head of Apollo right / Celticized horse right; above figure seated right, blowing trumpet; sickle-shaped ornament to right; below, figure seated(?) facing, holding up both arms and extending fingers to belly of horse. Scheers Series 3, Class III, var. b, pl. II, 32; Sills dies 4/5, pl. 7, 209; Depeyrot, NC VII, 142B; D&T 24; de la Tour – (Muret 10255); Flesche –. EF, struck with worn obverse die. Extremely rare, only six noted by Sills, including the five noted by Depeyrot. [IMG]http://64.60.141.195/photos/72thumbs/208018.jpg[/IMG] Celtic Coinage, Middle Danube. Uncertain tribe. Silver Tetradrachm (12.7g) struck late 2nd-early 1st Century BC. Variant of the Kroisbach/Reiterstumpf type. Celticized head of Apollo left with a low, jutting brow and hair formed of heavy reversed 'S'-shaped curls. Reverse: Celtic rider, showing only torso and above, with plaited curving locks, on horseback left; horse with a clef-shaped ear; twisting groundline below terminating in torque at each end. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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