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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7928784, member: 110350&quot;]I have a number of coins with a full figure of Tyche or Cybele or Italia&nbsp; wearing a turreted or mural crown, but not terribly much detail of those crowns can be seen. Here, however, are two coins depicting such a crown on a larger scale:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Aulus Plautius, AR Denarius, 55 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Turreted head of Cybele right, A. PLAVTIVS before, AE[D CVR S C] behind [<i>portion in brackets off flan</i>] / Rev. “Bacchius the Jew” [<i> = Aristobulus II of Judaea?</i>], in attitude of supplication, kneeling beside saddled camel (dromedary - one hump) standing right, extending olive-branch with right hand and holding camel’s bridle with left hand, his cape flowing behind him; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. RSC I Plautia 13, Crawford 431/1, Sydenham 932, Sear RCV I 395 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 18 at pp. 145-149, BMCRR 3916. 18x20 mm., 4.25 g.&nbsp; (<i>Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 211th Buy or Bid Sale, May 2020, Lot 183</i>.) [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370575[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous colonial civic issue, AE 23, 251 - 260 AD (Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I), Troas, Alexandria Troas Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, vexillum inscribed CO AV over right shoulder, CO ALEX TR / Rev. Horse (of Erichthonius?)* grazing to right, COL AVG, TROAD in exergue. RPC IX 505 (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505</a>); Bellinger A486 [Alfred A. Bellinger, <i>Troy, The Coins</i> (Princeton 1961)]; BMC 17 Troas, 46 <i>var. </i>[diff. legends]; see also id. 45, 47-50 <i>var. </i>[Warwick Wroth,&nbsp; <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 17, Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos </i>(London 1894)]; SNG Copenhagen 108-113 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 20, Troas</i> (1945)]. 23 mm., 5.80 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex: Pars Coins; Ex: Kenneth W. Dorney</i>. [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370576[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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