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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7501897, member: 75937&quot;]Hierapolis (with an A in the middle), which means &quot;holy city,&quot; owed its sanctity to the local hot springs. It stood on a ridge overlooking the wide and fertile plain of the Lycus, just north of Laodicea ad Lycum.[1] Its ruins are adjacent to modern Pamukkale in Turkey and currently comprise an archaeological museum. It is not to be confused with Hieropolis (with an O in the middle), another Phrygian city, but located in the Glaucus valley to the northeast.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296340[/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>[ATTACH=full]1296335[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">View of the site of Hiérapolis, Turkey.[2]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296336[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Frontinus Street extending in the north-south direction of the city, Hierapolis, Phrygia, Turkey.[3]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296337[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Part of the archeological site of Hierapolis.[4]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The city began minting anonymous bronze issues in the second century BC, and the imperial series begins with Augustus and comes to an end with Valerian. Through the reign of Trajan, the coins bear the names of local magistrates, but the subsequent coinage lacks the magistrates&#039; names and usually bears only the simple inscription, ΙЄΡΑΠOΛЄΙΤΩΝ, as on this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse types are too numerous to list here, but the type on this coin, Zeus Laodikeus, appears on coins issued during several imperial reigns. Zeus Laodikeus (Zeus of the Laodiceans) is also known as Zeus Lydios (Zeus of the Lydians), and is a term used by art historians to describe the iconography depicting him as standing, holding an eagle and vertical scepter.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1299788[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175. </font></p><p><font size="3">Roman provincial Æ 20.0 mm, 5.91 g, 6 h. </font></p><p><font size="3">Phrygia, Hierapolis, c. AD 158-165. </font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust, right. </font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: ΙЄΡΑ-ΠO-ΛЄΙΤΩΝ, Zeus Laodikeus standing left, holding eagle and scepter. </font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RPC IV.2 <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2008" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2008" rel="nofollow">2008</a> (temporary); BMC 25.251,138; SNG Cop 459; Lindgren I 971; RG 6157.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><i>Let&#039;s see your coins from Hierapolis, Faustina II provincials, Zeus Laodikeus, or 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. Head, Barclay Vincent. <i>Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phrygia</i>. Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1906, p.lxv ff.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Photo by Bernard Gagnon. Used by permission. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hierapolis_01.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hierapolis_01.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hierapolis_01.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>3. Photo by Carole Raddato. Used by permission. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frontinus_Street_extending_in_the_north-south_direction_of_the_city,_Hierapolis,_Phrygia,_Turkey_(31528771814).jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frontinus_Street_extending_in_the_north-south_direction_of_the_city,_Hierapolis,_Phrygia,_Turkey_(31528771814).jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frontinus_Street_extending_in_the_north-south_direction_of_the_city,_Hierapolis,_Phrygia,_Turkey_(31528771814).jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>4. Photo by A. Savin. Used by permission. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis#/media/File:TR_Pamukkale_Hierapolis_asv2020-02_img17.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis#/media/File:TR_Pamukkale_Hierapolis_asv2020-02_img17.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis#/media/File:TR_Pamukkale_Hierapolis_asv2020-02_img17.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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