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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8139264, member: 75937&quot;]TGIFF, everyone, and happy new year!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://media1.giphy.com/media/ZW7GZxa37cuZi/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47hf2zvwt9ymqdj845ok0tsxy7immzvmavi1dhun3j&amp;rid=giphy.gif&amp;ct=g" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Docimeum or Docimeium (Greek: Δοκίμια and Δοκίμειον; modern İscehisar) was an ancient Phrygian city where there were famous marble quarries.[1] The city stood on the road from Synnada to Dorylaeum in a rocky gorge formed by the stream known as Doureios, an affluent of the river Caÿstros.[2]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418761[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">From &quot;Asia citerior,&quot; Auctore Henrico Kiepert Berolinensi. Geographische Verlagshandlung Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) Berlin, Wilhemlstr. 29. (1903). <a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~34460~1180072:Asia-citerior--Auctore-Henrico-Kiep" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~34460~1180072:Asia-citerior--Auctore-Henrico-Kiep" rel="nofollow">David Rumsey Historical Map Collection</a>.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Some coins of the city bear the epigraph Δημος or Ιερα Συνκλητος Δοκιμεων Μακεδονεν because it was a Macedonian colony,[3] and was perhaps named after Antigonos Dokimos, the General who surrendered Synnada to Lysimachus in 302 B.C.[4] Little is known of the city in pre-Christian times otherwise.</p><p><br /></p><p>The city&#039;s coins, Imperial and quasi-autonomous, range from the reign of Claudius to that of Gordian III. For Faustina the Younger, the city issued five types.[5] Two of these types (illustrated below) depict the empress with a hairstyle used on her imperial coinage from November AD 149[6] through late AD 154 and three types depict her with a hairstyle used from AD 154 through 161.[7] I assign a date to the coins below of c. AD 150 to 155 to account for at least a few months delay for the news about the empress&#039; latest coiffure to reach the tiny Phrygian town from Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins in my collection depict a rather <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-–-an-interesting-representation-of-cybele.378683/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-–-an-interesting-representation-of-cybele.378683/">unusual representation of Cybele</a> as well as Hygieia rendered with standard iconography. Both were struck in orichalcum and all known examples of both coins were struck with the same obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418766[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Roman provincial Æ 17.4 mm, 4.39 g, 6 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Phrygia, Docimeum, c. AD 150-155.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Obv: ΦΑVСΤЄΙΝΑ СЄΒΑС, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rev: ΔΟΚΙ-ΜЄΩΝ, cultus-statue of Cybele standing facing, flanked by lions.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Refs: RPC IV.2 1976 (temp); BMC 25.192, 23; SNG Copenhagen 358; SNG von Aulock 3550.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418765[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman provincial Æ 17.4 mm, 4.67 g, 6 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Phrygia, Docimeum, c. AD 150-155.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: ΦΑVСΤЄΙΝΑ СЄΒΑС, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: ΔΟΚΙ-ΜЄΩΝ, Hygieia standing, right, feeding serpent from patera.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RPC IV.2 1977 (temp); BMC 25.192, 24; SNG Copenhagen 359; <i>Recueil général</i> 5960.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><i>Do you have any coins of Docimeum? Post anything you feel is relevant!</i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1. Smith, William. <i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography in Two Volumes--Vol. I. Abacaenum - Hytanis</i>. John Murray, 1872, p. 781.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Head, Barclay Vincent. <i>Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phrygia</i>. Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1906, p. lvi.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Smith, <i>op. cit</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Head, <i>op. cit</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. &quot;Search: &#039;Faustina&#039; + &#039;Docimeum.&#039;&quot; <i>RPC Online Volume IV.2</i>, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford., <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Faustina%2BDocimeum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Faustina%2BDocimeum" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Faustina+Docimeum</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Beckmann, Martin, <i>Faustina the Younger: Coinage, Portraits, and Public Image</i>, A.N.S. Numismatic Studies 43, American Numismatic Society, New York, 2021, p. 57.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. Clay, Curtis L. <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/#post-7605355" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/#post-7605355">post #9</a> in &quot;Faustina Friday – a Couple of Anepigraphic Bronzes.&quot; Coin Talk, 13 Nov. 2020, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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