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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Montmercure, post: 8266175, member: 121901&quot;]Hello everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, I need your knowledge and experience,</p><p><br /></p><p>I acquired this very beautiful (I think ;-) Hemiassarion from Phrygia, more precisely from Docimeium (Dokimion, Dokimeion, Docimium, Docimeum).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458468[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin - like the city from which it comes - is to my knowledge very few documented on the net and/or in books (with the exception of the Marbles of Docimeium and the personality of the founder of the city).</p><p><br /></p><p>The most accurate description I could find is:</p><p><br /></p><p>PHRYGIA. Docimeium. - Pseudo-autonomous</p><p>Hemiassarion, time of the Severans, 193-218.</p><p><br /></p><p>Avers: Bare-headed and draped bust of Hermes to right; before, winged kerykeion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revers: ΔΟΚΙΜЄΩΝ - The river-God Dureios reclining left, holding reed in his right hand and leaning left on urn from which water flows</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG von Aulock 3542.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when I try to investigate further, I find ........... <i><u><b>Nothing</b></u></i></p><p><br /></p><p>- No excavation report on the old city (excluding marbles, statuary, etc.),</p><p>- No study on the coinage of Docimeium,</p><p>- No identical currency in major museum collections</p><p>- Nothing about the river god Dourios</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you know if there is a study on this city and its coinage, and/or any element allowing to identify the associated river god?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks by advance</p><p>François[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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