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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zadie, post: 8310169, member: 114699&quot;]During Pulcher&#039;s enitire tenure as <i>pro consule</i> in the province of Asia, there was only&nbsp; one single type known from the mint at Tralles. Until now!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470943[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">Promagisterial Cistophori. Gaius Claudius Pulcher as Proconsul of Asia. Demostratos, magistrate. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Tralles mint, 55-53 BC. Serpent emerging from cista mystica; all within wreath / C•CLAVDIVS•AP•F•PVLCHER•PROCOS. Two serpents entwined by bow case; In the right field, Isis headdress resting on two grain ears and inverted crescent. TPAΛ to outer left. ΔΗΜΟΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ in exergue. 25 mm, 12.29 g. </font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">Stumpf -; Metcalf -, cf. 335 (same obverse die).</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Divergent from any of the bilingual cistophori issued in Asia, this coin boldly highlights who it was issued for, naming the governor by his full name: <i>Gaius Claudius, son of Appius, Pulcher, proconsul. </i>It also adds a previously unknown magistrate, Demostratos, to the corpus.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Preceeding Pulcher as governor of Asia was Gaius Septimius, a senator of praetorian rank and a significant member of the conservative faction. Like Pulcher, Septimius minted only a limited number of types at the mint in Tralles. One of these, struck under the magistrate Diogenes (ΔIOΓENHΣ) shares the obverse die seen on the above coin of Pulcher. This is significant because it helps establish a chronology of emissions and places the coin as the first issued during Pulcher&#039;s tenure. After Demostratos followed a much larger emission under magistrate Aristokles, bearing the more conventional latin legend C•PVLCHER•PROCOS.</font></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="4">Plates</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="4"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1470955[/ATTACH] </font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><font size="3">Metcalf 335 (Gaius Septimius)</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1470962[/ATTACH] </font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">Promagisterial Cistophori. Gaius Claudius Pulcher as Proconsul of Asia. Aristokles, magistrate. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Tralles mint, 55-53 BC. Serpent emerging from cista mystica; all within wreath / C•PVLCHER•PROCOS. Two serpents entwined by bow case; In the right field, raised hand holding olive branch. [TP]A to outer left. [APICTOKΛHC] in exergue. 25 mm, 12.4 g. Stumpf 55</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">Courtesy of the Kalevala Collection</font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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