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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4275270, member: 75937&quot;]The town of Dioshieron, which means &quot;sanctuary of Zeus&quot; in Greek, in Lydia was located in the upper valley of the Kaystros River (Greek Κάϋστρος, modern Küçük Menderes), roughly midway between Sardis and Nycaea.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088110[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The city became part of the Roman Republic and the Roman province of Asia with the annexation of the Kingdom of Pergamon. It was an episcopal see from as early as the fifth century. It was renamed to Christoupolis in the 7th century and was known as Pyrgion from the 12th century on. Pyrgion fell to the Turks in 1307, and was renamed Birgi.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint in Dioshieron issued coins in the Roman imperial period from the reigns of Augustus through Gordian. This coin is one of two reverse types issued by the city for Faustina II: A type featuring Asklepios standing facing (RPC IV.2, 1236) and another with Hera standing left, holding a patera and scepter (RPC IV.2, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1432" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1432" rel="nofollow">1432</a>). The former features an unusual coiffure for the empress, attested nowhere else, and probably representing the imagination of the die-engravers who likely had no official bust or portrait to base their image upon. This bust type is known with and without a stephane. The coiffure on the <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5390372" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5390372" rel="nofollow">issue with the Hera reverse type</a> is more conventional.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1088131[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 17.1 mm, 3.04 g, 7 h.</p><p>Lydia, Dioshieron, Magistrate L. Iouli. Mithres (Grammateus), AD 147-161.</p><p>Obv: ΦAVCTЄINA CЄBACTH, bare-headed and draped bust right, hair in a top-knot and looped ponytail.</p><p>Rev: ЄΠI MIΘPOV ΔIOCIЄPЄITΩN, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.2, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" rel="nofollow">1236</a> (temp); BMC 22.76, 12; SNG Cop 116; SNG Turkey 240-41; Waddington 4963.</p><p>Notes: Double-die match to Paris specimen (<a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" rel="nofollow">BNF</a>) and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" rel="nofollow">Ashmolean specimen</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The looped ponytail is very much a first century hairstyle, seen on empresses such as Agrippina II, Julia Titi, Domitia, Domitilla, and Plotina. For example:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/claudius-and-agrippina-ii-thyateira-jpg.943745/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Claudius, AD 41-54 and Agrippina II, AD 50-59.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 20.2 mm, 5.81 g, 10 h.</p><p>Lydia, Thyatira, AD 50-54.</p><p>Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑYΔΙΟC CЄΒΑCΤΟC, bare head of Claudius right.</p><p>Rev: ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑΝ CЄΒΑCΤΗΝ ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΟΙ, draped bust of Agrippina right.</p><p>Refs: Sear 507; RPC I 2380; BMC 22. 301, 57; SNG München 611; SNG von Aulock --; SNG Copenhagen --; Mionnet --; Wiczay --.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/julia-titi-venvs-avgust-denarius-jpg.674115/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Titi, c. AD 79-90/91.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.2 gm, 20.0 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 79-81.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA TITI AVGVSTI F, bust of Julia, draped and diademed, right, hair in long plait.</p><p>Rev: VENVS AVGVST, Venus standing right, leaning on column holding helmet in right hand and transverse spear in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC2 388; BMCRE 141-143; Cohen/RSC 14; RCV 2612.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other issue of the city for the empress is undoubtedly later, for the hairstyle has been corrected to Faustina&#039;s actual coiffure:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088133[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post anything you feel is relevant! </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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