Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.20 g, 1h). Ephesus mint. Struck 25-20 BC. Bare head right / Capricorn right, head reverted, holding cornucopia; all within laurel wreath. RIC I 480; Sutherland Group VI; RPC I 2213; RSC 16.

Divus Augustus. Died AD 14. Æ Dupondius (29mm, 14.95 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, circa AD 41-50. Radiate head of Divus Augustus left / Livia seated left, holding grain-ears, poppy, and torch. RIC I 101 (Claudius).

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.32 g). Spanish mint (Caesaraugusta?). Struck 19-18 BC. Bare head right / S•P•Q•R/CL•V in two lines on shield. RIC I 42a; BMCRE 333; RSC 294. Near VF, banker’s mark on neck,

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 22.22 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64. Laureate bust right / Triumphal arch with wreath hung between pillars surmounted by statuary group of Nero in quadriga, escorted by Victory and Pax and flanked by soldiers; statue of Mars in niche on left side of arch. RIC I 150.

CARIA, Mylasa. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 21mm (7.46 g). Bare head of Augustus right / Head of Zeus Labraundos right. PC I 2786; Akarca 39.

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SPAIN, Carthago Nova. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Semis (20mm, 5.75 g). P. Turullio and M. Postumus Albinus, duoviri. Priest driving quadriga left; vexillum before / Tetrastyle temple with AVGVSTO inscribed on entablature. RPC I 175; SNG Copenhagen 497.

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Julius Caesar. 49-48 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.06 g). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant walking right, trampling on serpent / Pontifical implements: simpulum, sprinkler, axe (surmounted by wolf’s head), and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49.

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ROMAN REPUBLICAN MARBLE NEAR LIFESIZE HEAD OF AN ELDER MALE

Carved in high relief, facing right.

An exceptional example of Roman veristic portraiture.

Cf. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 324 for another very similar head referred to as ‘Homer’.

Mid-1st Century BC

H. 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 20

Art of the Ancient World, 1992, no. 37

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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.88 g, 9h). Emerita mint. P. Carisius, legate. Struck circa 25-23 BC. Bare head right / Gateway inscribed EMERITA. RIC I 9a; RSC 397. cngcoins.com

GAIUS CALIGULA.. 37-41 AD. Æ As (10.72 gm). Struck 37-38 AD. C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, bare head left / VESTA above, S C across field, Vesta seated left, holding patera and sceptre. RIC I 38; BMCRE 46; BN 54; Szaivert 9-6; Cohen 27. For more on Caligulan Numismatic Articles see: Coins courtesy cngoins.com

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Full Record: Barrett, Anthony A. The invalidation of currency in the Roman Empire : the Claudian demonetization of Caligula's AES. (1999)

Full Record: Bost, Jean-Pierre. Routes, cits et ateliers montaires : quelques remarques sur les officines hispaniques entre les rgnes d'Auguste en de Caligula. (1999)

Full Record: Bibliothque Municipale d'Etude et d'Information de Grenoble. Grenoble : Bibliothque Municipale d'Etude et d'Information : catalogue des monnaies. II. Monnaies romaines. Monnaies impriales romaines. 2. Caligula - Neron . Index. / Bernard Rmy, Frdric Bontoux, Virginie Risler. (1998)

Full Record: Gainor, John R. The image of the Julio-Claudian dynasty from coins / by John R. Gainor.

Full Record: Martini, Rodolfo. Monete romane imperiali del Museo G. B. Adriani. Parte 3, Caius (37-41 d.C.) / Rodolfo Martini. (2001)

Full Record: ACCLA privy to presentation by Richard Baker on Caligula. (2002)

Full Record: Wend, David A. Caligula, the emperor as autocrat. Part 1. (2002)

Full Record: Wend, David A. Caligula, the emperor as autocrat. Part 2. (2002)

Full Record: Wend, David A. Caligula, the emperor as autocrat. Part 3. (2002)

Full Record: Kemmers, Fleur. Caligula on the Lower Rhine : Coin finds from the Roman Fort of Albaniana (The Netherlands) / Fleur Kemmers. (2004)

Full Record: Estiot, Sylviane. Le trsor de Meussia (Jura) : 399 monnaies d'argent d'poques rpublicaine et julio-claudienne / Sylviane Estiot, Isabelle Aymar. (2002)

Full Record: Gocht, Hans. Namenstilgungen an Bronzemünzen des Caligula und Claudius / Hans Gocht. (2003)

Full Record: Gomis Justo, Marivi. Ercavica : La emision de Caligula. Estimacion del numero de cunos originales.

Full Record: Sayles, Wayne G. Fakes on the Internet. (2002)

Full Record: Kemmers, Fleur. The coin finds from the Roman fort Albaniana, the Netherlands / Fleur Kemmers . (2005)

Full Record: Lopez Snchez, Fernando. La afirmacion soberana de Caligula y de Claudio y el fin de las acunaciones ciudadanas en occidente / Fernando Lopez Snchez. (2000)

Full Record: Besombes, Paul-Andr. Les monnaies hispaniques de Claude Ier des dpôts de la Vilaine (Rennes) et de Saint-Lonard (Mayenne) : tmoins de quel type de contact entre l'Armorique et la pninsule ibrique ? / Paul-Andr Besombes. (2005)

Full Record: Catalli, Fiorenzo. Le thesaurus de Sora / Fiorenzo Catalli et John Scheid.

Full Record: Giard, Jean-Baptiste. Faux deniers de Caligula de la Renaissance.

Full Record: Vermeule, Cornelius. Faces of Empire (Julius Caesar to Justinian). Part II(B), More young faces : Caligula again and Nero reborn / Cornelius Vermeule. (2005)

Full Record: Geranio, Joe. Portraits of Caligula : the seated figure? / Joe Geranio. (2007)

Full Record: Aguilera Hernandez, Alberto. Acerca de un as de Caligula hallado en Zaragoza / Alberto Aguilera Hernandez. (2007)

Full Record: Butcher, K. E. T. Caligula : the evil emperor. (1985)

Full Record: Fuchs, Michaela. Frauen um Caligula und Claudius : Milonia Caesonia, Drusilla und Messalina. (1990)

Full Record: Faur, Jean-Claude. Moneda de Caligula de Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Tarragona. (1979)

Full Record: British Museum. Dept. of coins and medals. Coins of the Roman Empire in the British museum. Vol. I: Augustus to Vitellius / by Harold Mattingly. (1976)

Full Record: Conrad, Edwin. A Caligula Isotope of Hadrian. (1968)

Full Record: Conrad, Edwin. The Metamorphosis of an Allegad 'As of Hadrian.' (1968)

Full Record: Bendall, Simon. A 'new' gold quinarius of Caligula. (1985)

Full Record: Cortellini, Nereo. Le monete di Caligola nel Cohen.

Full Record: Guey, Julien. Les "bains d'or" de Caligula "Immensi Avreorvm Acervi (Sutone, Cal., 42,3).

Full Record: Guey, J. Les "bains d'or" de Caligula : Sutone, Cal. 42, 3.

Full Record: Curry, Michael R. The Aes Quadrans of Caligula. (1968)

Full Record: Jonas, Elemr. L'emploi dar "damnatio memoriae" sur l'un des "dupondius" de Calgula. (1937)

Full Record: Julian, R. W. The coins of Caligula. (1994)

Full Record: Donciu, Ramiro. Cu privire la activitatea militara a lui Caius (Caligula) in anul 40 e.n. (1983)

Full Record: Hansen, Peter. A history of Caligula's Vesta. (1992)

Full Record: Kaenel, Hans-Markus von. Augustus, Caligula oder Caludius? (1978)

Full Record: Kaenel, Hans-Markus von. Die Organisation der Münzprgung Caligulas. (1987)

Full Record: Johansen, Flemming S. The sculpted portraits of Caligula. (1987)

Full Record: Carter, G. F. Chemical compositions of copper-based Roman coins. V : imitations of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero / G. F. Carter and others. (1978)

Full Record: Giard, Jean-Baptiste. L'atelier de Lyon sous Auguste : Tibre et Caligula. (1979)

Full Record: Giard, Jean-Baptiste. Les missions d'or et d'argent de Caligula dans l'atelier de Lyon. (1976)

Full Record: Giard, Jean-Baptiste. Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon des origines au rgne de Caligula (43 avant J.-C. - 41 aprs J.-C.). (1983)

Full Record: Nony, D. Quelques as d'imitation de Caligula trouves a Bordeaux (Gironde). (1981)

Full Record: Levy, Brooks Emmons. Caligula's radiate crown. (1988)

Full Record: Poulsen, Vagn. Un nouveau visage de Caligula. (1972)

Full Record: Price, Martin Jessop. Elephant in Crete? New light ona cistophorus of Caligula. (1973)

Full Record: MacInnis, H. Frank. Ego-driven emperor commits excesses. (1979)

Full Record: McKenna, Thomas P. The case of the curious coin of Caligula : a provincial bronze restruck with legend-only dies. (1994)

Full Record: Mowat, Robert. Bronzes remarquables de Tibre, de son fils, de ses petits-fils et de Caligula. (1911)

Full Record: Koenig, Franz E. Roma, monete dal Tevere : l'imperatore Gaio (Caligola). (1988)

Full Record: Kollgaard, Ron. Caligula's coins profile despot. (1993)

Full Record: Kollgaard, Ron. A numismatic mystery : "the Caligula quadrans." (1994)

Full Record: Martini, Rodolfo. Osservazioni su contromarche ed erosioni su assi de Caligula. (1980)

Full Record: Szaivert, Wolfgang. Moneta Imperii Romani. Band 2 und 3. Die Münzprgung der Kaiser Tiberius und Caius (Caligula) 14/41 / von Wolfgang Szaivert. (1984)

Full Record: Boschung, Dietrich. Die Bildnisse des Caligula. Kaenel, Hans-Markus von. Jucker, Hans. Deutsches Archaologisches Institut. Das Romische Herrscherbild. 1. Abt., Bd. 4, Die Bildnisse des Caligula / Dietrich Boschung ; mit einem Beitrag von Hans-Markus von Kaenel ; auf Grund der Vorarbeiten und Marterialsammlungen von Hans Jucker. (1989)

Full Record: Rosborough, Ruskin R. An epigraphic commentary on Suetonius's life of Gaius Caligula. A thesis...for the...Doctor of Philosophy. (1920)

Full Record: Richard, Jean-Claude. A propos de l'aureus de Caligula dcouvert Saint-Colomban-des-Villards (Savoie). (1982)

Full Record: Richard, Jean-Claude. Un aureus de Caligula dcouvert Saint-Colomban-des-Villards (Savoie). (1982)

Full Record: Ritter, Hans-Werner. Adlocutio und Corona Civica unter Caligula und Tiberius. (1971)

Full Record: Kumpikevicius, Gordon C. A numismatic look at Gaius. (1979)

Full Record: Savio, Adriano. La coerenza di Caligola nella gestione della moneta / Adriano Savio. (1988)

Full Record: Savio, Adriano. Note su alcune monete di Gaio-Caligola. (1973)

Full Record: Stylow, Armin U. Die Quadranten des Caligula als Propaganda-münzen.münzen" aus der stdtischen sammlung zu Osnabrück. (1971)

Full Record: Schwartz, Jacques. Le Monnayage Snatorial entre 37 et 42 P.C. (1951)

Full Record: Rodolfo Martini, ed. Sylloge nummorum Romanorum. Italia. Milano, Civiche Raccolte Numismatiche Vol. 1 Giulio-Claudii / a cura di Rodolfo Martini. (1990)

Full Record: Szaivert, Wolfgang. Zur Julisch-Claudischen Münzprgung. (1979)

Full Record: Vedrianus. The Roman Imperial series. V. Gaius. (1963)

Full Record: Tietze, Christian M. Kaiser Cajus Caesar, genannt Caligula. (1979)

Full Record: Wood, Susan. Diva Drusilla Panthea and the sisters of Caligula / Susan Wood. (1995)

Full Record: Sutherland, Carol Humphrey Vivian. Coinage in Roman imperial policy 31 B.C.-A.D. 68. (1951)

Full Record: Sutherland, C. H. V. The mints of Lugdunum and Rome under Gaius : an unsolved problem. (1981)

Full Record: Trillmich, Walter. Familienpropaganda der Kaiser Caligula und Claudius : Agrippina Maior und Antonia Augusta auf Münzen. (1978)

Full Record: Voirol, August. Eine Warenumsatzsteuer im antiken Rom und der numismatische Beleg inher Aufhebung : Centesima rerum venalium. (1943)

Full Record: Trillmich, Walter. Zur Münzprgung des Caligula von Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza). (1973)

oil painting on Canvas ,

60-90CM

Roof top terrace at the Grohmann Museum, 'Man at Work' collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Note "T" in "ET" raised to make room for possible radiate crown? Could Caligula have been first living Princeps to appear radiate on coinage?

LYDIA, Philadelphia. Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ 17mm (4.73 g). Bare head of Caligula right / Capricorn left with cornucopiae; monogram before. RPC I 3029.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. C. Marius C.f. Tro(mentina tribu), moneyer. Struck 13 BC. AVGVSTVS, bare head right; lituus behind / C • MA[R]IVS • TR-O below, III VIR above, bare heads right of Lucius, Julia, and Caius; wreath above Julia. RIC I 404; RSC 1 (Caius, Lucius, Julia, and Augustus); BMCRE 106 = BMCRR Rome 4650; BN 526.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AV Aureus (20mm, 8.01 gm). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-4 AD. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right / AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, C L CAESARES in exergue, Caius and Lucius Caesars standing facing, shield and spears between them; simpulum and lituus above. RIC I 206; BMCRE 515; Cohen 42.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.83 g, 6h). Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck circa 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head left / MARTIS VLTORIS, Temple of Mars Ultor: statue of Mars, holding aquila and trophy, standing left within tetrastyle temple with ornate domed roof. RIC I 39b; BMCRE -; BN -; RSC -; B. Czurda and F. Dick, TNRB 3, 665.

Photo courtesy David Emery

photo courtesy David Emery

What can I say, I did not have enough time even to look at the Julio Claudian portaits and coins......I am going to have to go back.

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MACEDON, Thessalonica. Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 21mm (7.72 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 14. QEOC, bare head of Divus Julius Caesar right / CEBACTOY QE, bare head of Augustus right. RPC I 5421 var. (Uncertain Mint; placement of rev. legend); Touratsoglou, Münzstätte Em. II (Domitian), - (V6/R2; an unlisted die combination) . Good VF, black-green patina, surfaces smoothed.

While Touratsoglou rejected Head’s attribution (BMC) to Thessalonica based on style, the die match of our coin with a type bearing that city’s ethnic, as well as the 6h axis normally associated with the coinage of Thessalonica, should conclusively place it there. Likewise, this coin must be contemporary with RPC I 1555. RPC has questioned Touratsoglou’s dating of the type to Domitian, and instead dates it to the reign of Augustus.

The reverse legend, CEBACTOY poses a potential problem. Nowhere else does RPC list such a legend, and the coinage of Thessalonica canonically includes the ethnic. A closer examination of the coin suggests that the original ethnic may have been altered to accommodate the new legend. One possible explanation could be that the dies were reused shortly after the deification of Augustus in AD 14, with the reverse ethnic removed and the new legend put in its place, with coins commemorating the new divus being struck. QE is an otherwise unknown abbreviation for QEOY, and an otherwise unnecessary one, given the plentiful amount of space on the die.

AEOLIS, Aegae. Messalina. Augusta, AD 41-48. Æ 17mm (3.91 g, 11h). Draped bust right / Zeus Aëtophorus standing left. RPC 2430; SNG Copenhagen 23

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. Germanicus. 5-19 AD. Æ 17mm (3.39 g, 2h). Bare head right, GERM-ANIKOC clockwise from left around / Nude Apollo standing facing, holding laurel branch and bow; T-A across upper field, N-A across lower field. RPC I 1318.14 (this coin); BMC 57; SNG Cop. 239; Pozzi (Boutin) 3226

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Title: Bust of a Julio-Claudian woman

Subject The features have been proposed by Poulsen to be those of Octavia Major, the half-sister of the emperor Augustus, on the basis of their similarity to the features of Octavia Minor, his full sister (Fulvia, the wife of Mark Anthony, has also been proposed)

Category: Separated fragments

Material: Marble

Date ca. 0 AD

Style: Julio-Claudian

Context: Campania

Findspot: Capua

Condition: Complete

Dimensions: H. 0.345 m; L. (face) 0.162 m

Period: Julio-Claudian

Region: Campania

Scale: Under life-size

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Form & Style: The bust is in the form popular in the Julio-Claudian period, whereby the upper parts of the shoulders and breast are shown.

Condition: The surface is well preserved, with a chipped nose restored in plaster.

Sources Used: Comstock & Vermeule 1976, 211, no. 333 (ill., with previous bibliography)

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size in 70-100CM.

Oil Painting on linen, commission work

painted from wedding photo.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Octavian. Spring-early summer 41 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.82 g, 12h). Ephesus mint; M. Barbatius Pollio, quaestor pro praetore. Bare head of Mark Antony right / Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard. Crawford 517/2; CRI 243; Sydenham 1181; RSC 8d. cngcoins.com

Discovered in Rome on the Aventine Hill.

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EARLY ROMAN IMPERIAL SILVER STATUE OF PAN

Holding his flute, a goat skin wrapped around his waist and standing next to a tree with the animal’s head impaled on the top. Found in a ship wreck off the coast of Africa.

1st Centrury BC/AD

H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) RAG

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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.74 g, 10h). Rome mint. C. Marius C.f. Tro(mentina tribu), moneyer. Struck 13 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head right; all within oak wreath / C • MARIVS • TR-O below, III VIR above, bare heads right of Lucius, Julia, and Caius; wreath above Julia. RIC I 405; RSC 2 (Caius, Lucius, Julia, and Augustus); BMCRE 108-9 = BMCRR Rome 4648-9; BN 529. cngcoins.com

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.13 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 64-65. Laureate head right / Nero radiate and togate standing facing, holding branch in right hand and Victory on a globe in left. RIC I 46; Calicó 402.

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.13 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 64-65. Laureate head right / Nero radiate and togate standing facing, holding branch in right hand and Victory on a globe in left. RIC I 46; Calicó 402. Good Fine.

The reverse depicts Nero’s Colossus, a roughly 120 foot tall bronze statue of the emperor as Sol that was created by Zenodorus for the vestibule of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, the massive palace constructed by Nero after the fire of AD 64. Its memory was retained in the popular name of the amphitheater that went up close to the collossus - the Colosseum.

of the emperor as Sol that was created by Zenodorus for the vestibule of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, the massive palace constructed by Nero after the fire of AD 64. Its memory was retained in the popular name of the amphitheater that went up close to the collossus - the Colosseum. cngcoins.com

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.13 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 64-65. Laureate head right / Nero radiate and togate standing facing, holding branch in right hand and Victory on a globe in left. RIC I 46; Calicó 402.

The reverse depicts Nero’s Colossus, a roughly 120 foot tall bronze statue of the emperor as Sol that was created by Zenodorus for the vestibule of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, the massive palace constructed by Nero after the fire of AD 64. Its memory was retained in the popular name of the amphitheater constructed by the Flavians at the same site - the Colosseum.

Titulus sepulcralis con hoja de hiedra.

Fabia Ferriola a su esposo Pedanio Dionisio.

Finales del siglo II d. C.

Necrópolis romana.

Vía sepulcral de la Plaza de la Villa de Madrid.

Barcelona.

Hispania Epigraphica: www.eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_2.php?refpage=%2Fpub%2Fsea...

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head right / Temple of Janus with latticed windows and garland hung across closed doors. RIC 323.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 25.06 g). Rome mint. T. Quinctius Crispinus Sulpicianus, moneyer. Struck 18 BC. Oak wreath flanked by two laurel branches / Legend around large S C. RIC I 329; BMCRE 181; BN 248.

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Hermes and the Infant Dionysos by Praxiteles

Æ-Sesterz, 50/54, Rom; 29.04 g. Drapierte Büste r.//SC, oben rechteckiger Gegenstempel: NCAPR. BMC 219; Coh. 3; RIC² 102; Gegenstempel: Slg. Pangerl 60

Quinarius circa 41-42, 3.96 g. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P Laureate head r. Rev. Victory flying l., holding shield inscribed OB/CI in her l. hand. RIC -. BMC -. C -. CBN -. Vagi 585.

An apparently unique and unlisted issue of an exceedingly rare denomination.

Among the consistent rarities of Roman Imperial coinage is the quinarius, be it gold, silver or billon. The denomination originated early in the Republic as half of a silver denarius, and re-emerged under Augustus as an Imperial denomination for both gold and silver, which leads some researchers to refer to them, respectively, as quinarius aureus and quinarius denarius. Gold quinarii of Augustus and Tiberius are rare, but occasionally are encountered. The same cannot be said of the remaining Julio-Claudians: quinarii of Caligula, Claudius and Nero are very rare. This particular coin seems to be unique, as other published examples - also from his accession year only - depict Victory seated or standing, accompanied with the usual inscription VICTORIA AVGVSTI. Though Augustus had struck anepigraphic gold quinarii at a Spanish mint nearly sixty years before, the flying Victory seems to have no prototype for this denomination.

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