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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8088640, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks for the fascinating article!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only two coins depicting Tyche of Antioch:</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan AR Tetradrachm, 112 AD, Seleucis &amp; Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, club below to left and eagle (standing right) below to right, AYTOKP KAIC NER TPAIANOC CEB ΓEPM ΔAK / Rev. Tyche of Antioch, wearing mural crown, seated on rocks, right, holding two ears of wheat and a poppy-head in her right hand, river god Orontes at her feet in river swimming right, looking up at Tyche, left arm extended and left forefinger pointed, ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΙϚ ΥΠΑΤ Ϛ [= TR POT XVI, COS VI]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 4076 (2015); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3543" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3543" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3543</a>, McAlee 471 [Richard McAlee, <i>The Coins of Roman Antioch</i> (2007)]; Prieur 1499 [Michel and Karin Prieur, <i>Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms</i> (London, 2000)]; Sear <i>GIC</i> 1089 at p. 100 (ill.), attributed to Tyre [D. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values (1982)]. 25 mm., 13.88 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>(I have no idea why Sear attributed this type to Tyre rather than to Antioch.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous civic issue, reign of Maximinus II, AE quarter follis [?][Sear] or 1/12 nummus [?][McAlee], Antioch Mint (3rd Officina), ca. 311-312 AD. Obv. Tyche (city-goddess of Antioch) wearing mural crown, seated facing on rock, holding wheat or grain ears with right hand and, with left hand, holding a two-handled basket (filled with wheat or grain ears[?]) resting on ground to right, river god Orontes swimming below, GENIO ANTIOCHINI / Rev. Apollo standing left, pouring libation from patera held in right hand, and holding lyre in raised left hand, Γ [gamma, signifying 3rd Officina] in right field, APOLLONI SANCTO around; in exergue, SMA [<i>meaning Sigmata Moneta Antioch (money struck at Antioch) or Sacra Moneta Antioch</i>]. [Not in RIC; see <a href="http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html</a>.]&nbsp; Sear RCV IV 14927 (ill); Vagi 2954; McAlee 170; Van Heesch Type 3 [Van Heesch, J. &quot;The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)&quot; in <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i> (1993), pp. 63-75 &amp; Pl. 11]; <i>ERIC II</i>, “Anonymous Religious Coinage of the Fourth Century,” pp. 1198-1199, No. 2. 16 mm., 1.35 g. [<i>Struck either (1) to promote propaganda against Christians and aid in their persecution (and thus traditionally denominated the “Persecution issue”; or (2) as proposed by David Kalina, for use in festivals, including the Festival of Apollo at Daphne, held in conjunction with the Olympics in Antioch in 312 AD. See Kalina, David, “Anonymous Civic Coinage,” Series 1, at <a href="http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php" rel="nofollow">http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php</a></i>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405641[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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