A recent find I am excited about. My first provincial from Apamea. It was founded in the 3rd century BC by Antiochus I Soter, who named it after his mother Apama. Phrygia. Apamea circa AD 300. Head of Demos / Palm branch. Æ24mm., 6.32g. SNG Von Aulock 3477 Please post your latest finds, provincials or anything that floats your boat.
very nice indeed AC PHRYGIA, Trajanopolis AE19 Pseudo-autonomous under Hadrian17 viewsReference. RPC 3, 2477; BMC 17-18; vA, Phryg., 1375-89 Obv: DHMOC Bare-headed and draped bust of Demos right Rev: TPAIAN-O-POLITWN Kybele seated left, holding patera and resting arm on drum; lion seated left at foot right. 4.2 gr 19 mm
Nice coin... AE's from this the Greek side of the world seem more difficult to find! Nice! LOL, Duuude! I have NO Demos! NO Phrygia! NO Apamea! and NO Antiochus I Soter! LOL, I am basically WORTHLESS as a collector! I JUST got one of his Daddy (Husband of Apama) the other day, just because it was cool... Daddy's Bunch of Elephants: Seleucid Seleucus I 312-280 BCE AR Tet 14.46g Seleucia on Tigris. Zeus - Athena driving a quadriga of 4 horned elephants SC 130 Seleucid Seleucus I 312-280 BCE AE 20 Athena-Elephant Spaer 129
I've always thought Deimos was an odd deity to put on the coin - the personification of terror during war? Why doesn't he look terrified? Why is he paired with a palm branch? Palm branches were a sign of celebration and festivity in the ancient world. I don't fathom the meaning. Great coins though. Here are two pre-Roman issues of Apameia... Phrygia, Apameia AE23, 6.77g; c. 133-148 BC. Obv.: Bust of Athena right, wearing high-crested Corinthian helmet and aegis. Rev.: AΠAMEΩN, eagle alighting on base with meander pattern, flanked by caps of the Dioskouroi, star above, magistrate’s name unclear. Reference: SNG München 110-2. Phrygia, Apameia AE15, 3.86g, 12h; c. 133-48 BC. Obv.: Turreted head of Artemis as Tyche right. Rev.: AΠAMEΩN; Marsyas walking right on meander pattern, playing aulos. Ref.: SNG Cop 189.
Oooooooo... I have an ETRURIAN counterpart of DEIMOS: Metus may had been Medusa, but I have read that it may had represented Deimos - TERROR in Etruria... Etruria Populonia 3rd C BCE AR 20 As (Didrachm) 8.1g Metus Blank HN 152
I think you have your deities mixed up, Demos and Deimos. Demos is a personification of the people of the city.
Well different area but here is my pseudo-autonomous: Philip I Philadelphos, semi-autonomous city issue of Antioch AR, tetradrachm, 26mm, 12h; Antioch mint 46/5 BC or later Obv.: Diademed head left Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΑΠΠΟV ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟVΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΑΦΟV; Zeus Nikephoros seated left holding spear in left hand holding victory presenting laurel wreath in right; AYT monogram to inner left, date in exergue (off flan) And Antiochos: Antiochos I Soter, Seleucid Kings of Syria; 281-261 BC Æ, 16mm, 4.01 g; 3h; Antioch mint Obv.: Diademed head right Rev.: Apollo Delphios seated left; monograms to left and right
Wow, that's a great coin, @ancientone. I don't have a demos bust coin, but here's one with the demos of Pergamum crowning the Roman proconsul, M. Plautius Silvanus. AUGUSTUS AE. 5.69g, 21.5mm. MYSIA, Pergamum, AD 4-5. RPC 2364; BMC 242-245. O: SEBASTON DHMOFWN, Tetrastyle temple, with statue of Augustus standing facing within, in military dress, holding spear in right hand. R: SILBANON PERGAMHNOI, Demos in short chiton, standing left, crowning with a wreath the Proconsul M. Plautius Silvanus who is standing, wearing toga and holding patera. Notes: Marcus Plautius Silvanus was the son of Urgulania, an intimate of the empress Livia. He was co-consul with Augustus in 2 BC, and was proconsul of Asia in AD 4-5. He had a son, also named Marcus Plautius Silvanus, who was best known for having been brought on trial before Tiberius for throwing his wife out of a window, killing her.
