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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3163647, member: 75937&quot;]One interesting feature of this coin is that it bears the inscription OVΛΠIAC before the city name. That inscription is also used with coins from a nearby city, Pautalia, in Thrace. It is the genitive form (transliterated into Greek) of the Latin <i>Ulpius</i>, which is the <i>nomen</i> of Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus). The term, OVΛΠIAC, means &quot;of the city of Trajan&quot; and indicates, if not the founder of the city, the reign in which the city was founded. See Ruzicka, Leon. <i>Die Münzen Von Pautalia: Auszug Aus Dem Vortrage Gehalten in Der Monatsversammlung Der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien Am 27. Oktober 1915</i>. Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1915, p. 3.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of Pautalia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]812755[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-176.</p><p>Roman provincial AE 20.7 mm; 5.96 gm.</p><p>Thrace, Pautalia, AD 147-176.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙ-ΝΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑC ΠΑ-VΤΑΛΙΑC, Demeter seated l., with corn ears and long torch. Refs: BMC-9; Ruzicka-95; Moushmov-4104; Schönert-Geiss-58.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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