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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 7665658, member: 57495"]That's a neat coin with its temple reverse. I also always enjoy these provincials of Gallienus where the portraits look almost nothing like Gallienus. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I only have one coin from this city. It doesn't have a temple on the reverse, but apparently the reverse with three trees in an enclosure relates to the birth of Aphrodite's lover Adonis. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1317382[/ATTACH]<b>VALERIAN II</b></p><p>AE22. 3.9g, 22.1mm. CARIA, Aphrodisias, circa AD 256-258. SNG Cop -; SNG von Aulock -; Milne, Notes on the Oxford Collection (NC, 1938), pg 257, 4. O: ЄΠIΦ KAI ΠOK OP OVAΛЄPIANOC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: AΦPOΔЄICIЄWN, Lattice enclosure (temenos) containing three leafless, upright branches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 7665658, member: 57495"]That's a neat coin with its temple reverse. I also always enjoy these provincials of Gallienus where the portraits look almost nothing like Gallienus. :D I only have one coin from this city. It doesn't have a temple on the reverse, but apparently the reverse with three trees in an enclosure relates to the birth of Aphrodite's lover Adonis. [ATTACH=full]1317382[/ATTACH][B]VALERIAN II[/B] AE22. 3.9g, 22.1mm. CARIA, Aphrodisias, circa AD 256-258. SNG Cop -; SNG von Aulock -; Milne, Notes on the Oxford Collection (NC, 1938), pg 257, 4. O: ЄΠIΦ KAI ΠOK OP OVAΛЄPIANOC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: AΦPOΔЄICIЄWN, Lattice enclosure (temenos) containing three leafless, upright branches.[/QUOTE]
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