Featured Roman Provincial Coin Cities-- How many can we cover?

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  1. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

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  3. Okidoki

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    Correction its Trajan
     
  4. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    CARIA Trapezopolis Sabina Ae 19 Mên standing
    929 P Sabina RPC2262A.jpg
     
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  5. slim shady

    slim shady New Member

    Cool thread idea, TIF ... nice coins, Oki (man, you guys are awesome)

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  6. Pellinore

    Pellinore Well-Known Member

    Grimenothyrae, Phrygia. Temp. Trajan (98-117)

    I don't have much time to contribute, but I still love Cointalk very much. This thread has been a stimulus for me since its first inception: try to find new Cointalk horizons, new Roman Provincial (or Greek Imperial) cities, new mints for the statistics! Here's one that (I believe) has not been shown before: Grimenothyrae in Phrygia. Could not find the place on a map, but Phrygia is in the midlands of Anatolia, now Turkey. Not far from Ankara without any doubt. There are five types on Wildwinds, this type too, but my Senate personification has long tresses. Otherwise it's the same style, same celator no doubt.

    Grimenothyrae, pseudo-autonomous coinage featuring the Senate of the town. Obv. the personification of the Senate, a long-haired and sharp-nosed, handsome man (laurel crown, draped). Text 'Hiera synkleta' or 'Holy Senate' :rolleyes: . Rev. the god Mên standing holding a lance and a pine cone (or so I was told). Text 'Grimenothyreon Epim Tulli' or 'Of the Grimenothyreans - Official (Lucius) Tullius'. 23 mm, 6.15 gr.

    3114 Grimenothyrae eco.jpg
     
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  7. Ed Snible

    Ed Snible Well-Known Member

    The ANS web site now provides an interactive map alongside the coins. For example, http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.50418?lang=en

    It can also be useful to get a location from the Historia Numorum:
    The Grimenothyreis were a people inhabiting the region between Temenothyrae (Ushak) and Keramon Agora on the upper Sindrus near Acmoneia. Their two cities were Flavia Grimenothyrae and Trajanopolis, some four miles to the south of it.
    http://snible.org/coins/hn/phrygia.html#Grimenothyrae
     
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  8. Pellinore

    Pellinore Well-Known Member

    Great, that helps! It's 5 miles east of Ushak in the west of Anatolia. See also the Lydian Treasure, that was buried 700 years before this Roman-Greek city minted my coin.
     
  9. Pellinore

    Pellinore Well-Known Member

    @TIF, is there a new updated list? I found a (hook-nosed) coin of Metropolis, that is not in your list - but later I found it in another thread on CoinTalk. Maybe you could put the list in the Home section? Then we can use it as a guide when searching for new cities to include.

    Here's the coin, rare apparently, but 3 pieces in RPC VI 4852 online.
    Maximinus Thrax, AE21. Metropolis in Ionia (40 km south of current Izmir). Reverse showing the river god holding a plant and resting his elbow on a fallen urn as a source of water. 21.5 mm, 4.37 gr.

    3280 Metropolis 500.jpg
     
  10. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    I'll add "update the Provincial list" to this weekend's to-do list. I'm at work now though (nice of them to tell me I was working today on the afternoon before! Grr)
     
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  11. Pellinore

    Pellinore Well-Known Member

    Thanks! No haste please.
     
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  12. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    Here are a few more.
    Aphrodisias.JPG Caria, Aphrodisias (AD 200-250) AE 24. Senate/Aphrodite Imperial Times, ca 200-250 AD. AE24. IЄPA CV - NKΛHTOC, diademed bust of Senate right; countermark. / AΦPOΔЄI-CIЄΩN, Aphrodite standing facing, holding scepter and apple.
    BMC 31; SNG Cope

    edessaMacedonCaracalla.jpg Macedonia, Edessa. Caracalla AE25. Roma Nikephoros Obv: MAP AV AVT ANTWNEINOC, laureate draped bust right.
    Rev: EDECC EWN , Roma Nikephoros seated left on cuirass, shield behind her, goat to left, behind her Tyche of Edessa, turreted, holding cornucopia, crowning her with wreath.


    Previously owned:
    Thelpusa.jpg Achaea. Arcadia, Thelpusa. Septimius Severus AE17. Unpublished Peloponnesus. Thelpusa, Arcadia. Septimius Severus bust rt., Θ Ε Λ in wreath. Obverse die and reverse type not listed in BCD. BCD Pelop. I -; BCD Pelop II -; SNG Cop -; BMC -.

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    Ionia, Island of Chios. Pseudo-autonomous AE14 Dichalkon, Civic Coinage of Chios, Ionia.
    Reign of Augustus - 150 AD
    Obverse: XI-W-N, Sphinx left, forepaw raised.
    Reverse: DIXA-LKON, amphora, dotted border.
    14mm and 1.8gms
    BMC Ionia 114


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    Lycia, Myra. Gordian III AE32. Artemis Eleutheras
    Obv: AYTKAIMANTGORDIANOCCEB / Bust of Gordian III r., laureate, wearing paludamentum and cuirass.
    Rev: MY P A E WN / In tetrastyle temple, simulacrum of Artemis Eleutheras, wearing veil and modius.
    AE32, 19.2g.
    Aulock Lycia 148 var. Different obv. and rev. dies.
     
  13. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    @ancientone, @Pellinore, @Okidoki, @Valentinian: I just added your coins to the spreadsheet. We've now shown 272 cities! Please let me know if I've overlooked any that you have posted.

    Looking forward to more! :)
     
  14. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    This one seems to be missing. Anyone have an idea why this is a nice gold color? Orichalcum, gold plating or maybe gold content?
    PrymnessusNero.jpg
    Phrygia, Prymnessus. Nero. Æ 20mm. Ti. Julius Proclus, magistrate.
     
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  15. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Added, thanks :)
     
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  16. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Orichalcum; it was commonly used in provincial coinage.
     
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  17. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    I have a few orichalcum provincials but this one is a little different. Maybe it's shiny from being over cleaned.
     
  18. Pellinore

    Pellinore Well-Known Member

    Thanks, TIF! A great help.
    I don't think I have any more cities to add at the moment, but here's a nice coin that I didn't post earlier. An AE27 of Macrinus, Nicaea in Bithynia, 27 mm, 12.86 gr.
    Great portrait of the doomed emperor, but that Serapis on the reverse looks a bit over-fed with his big belly (neatly placed centre hole!) and spindly legs.

    3219 N Macrinus.jpg
     
  19. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    PAMPHYLIA , Attalea Hadrian Ae 20 Athena bust
    Reference.
    RPC III, 2680; Baydur 192, Attaleia -; SNG France -; SNG Pfalz - ; SNG Cop 286.

    Obv. ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ
    Laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right

    Rev. ΑΤΤΑΛΕΩΝ
    Bust of Athena with Corinthian helmet and aegis, right

    5.10 gr
    20 mm
    6h
    993 P Hadrian RPC2680.JPG
     
  20. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Laodicea Combusta has not yet been mentioned.

    This was one of the five cities built by Seleucus I Nicator and named after his mother Laodice. It is distinguished from other cities by that name by the epithet Combusta (Κατακεκαυμένη in the original Greek), which means "burned."

    It lies on the Black Sea coast in the north of Turkey, at the modern day city of Ladik.




    Titus and Domitian Laodicea Combusta.jpg
    Titus and Domitian, Caesares, AD 69-81
    Roman provincial Æ 20mm, 5.15g, 6h
    Lycaonia, Laodicea Combusta (Laodikeia Katakekaumene / Claudio-Laodicea)
    Obv: TITOC KAI ΔOMITIANOC KAICAΡEC, bare head of Titus right, facing bare head of Domitian left
    KΛAYΔIO ΛAOΔIKЄѠN, Cybele, polos on head, seated left, holding patera and tympanum; lion beneath throne
    Refs: RPC II 1613; von Aulock Lykaoniens 151; SNG von Aulock 8416; Waddington 4779; SNG France III 2322.
     
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  21. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    It's a shame this one is so worn.
    Vespasian 7.jpg
    VESPASIAN
    AE3
    OBVERSE: KAICAP OYECΠACIANOC TOMI, laureate head of Vespasian right
    REVERSE: TITOC KAICAP ΔOMITIANOC KAICAP, confronted busts of Titus (left) and Domitian
    Struck at Tomis, Moesia Inferior, 69-79AD
    3.1g, 17mm
    RPC II 402
     
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