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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7839801, member: 75937&quot;]Interesting coin, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER], and from a town Jesus once visited (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt%208:28" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt%208:28" rel="nofollow">Matthew 8:28</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of provincial cities that nobody had added to [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]&#039;s <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/">Provincial coin cities thread</a> until I contributed examples of them. I guess that qualifies as obscure.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one comes from Otrus in Phrygia, near Hieropolis with an O in the middle, not to be confused with <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-provincial-from-hierapolis-in-phrygia.379871/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-provincial-from-hierapolis-in-phrygia.379871/">Hierapolis with an A in the middle</a>. It issued coins only intermittently.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/plautilla-otrus-demeter-zeus-jpg.1323469/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Plautilla, AD 202-205.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Roman provincial Æ 20 mm, 4.1 g.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Phrygia, Otrus, AD 202-205.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Obv: ΦOVΛ ΠΛ-AVTIΛΛAC, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rev: OTP-O-HNΩN, Demeter standing left, holding grain ears and long torch.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Refs: BMC 25.344,7; Von Aulock Phrygiens, 802-8; cf. SNG Cop 633. </font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Palaeopolis in Pisidia issued coins from the early Antoninine period (Antoninus Pius, Faustina II under Pius, and some semi-autonomous issues) through the late Severan period (Elagabalus, Mamaea, and Severus Alexander).</p><p><br /></p><p>The ruins of the city are very likely those at Ak Euren in the open plains of the Lysis valley in Turkey, between Olbasa and Lysinia.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-paleopolis-men-jpg.1317287/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Roman provincial Æ 19.5 mm, 5.14 g, 6 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Pisidia, Palaeopolis, AD 148-150.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤ; draped bust of Faustina II, right, with early coiffure.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Reverse: ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ; Mên standing, left, wearing Phrygian cap, holding pine-cone and long scepter; behind his shoulders, crescent.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Refs: RPC IV.3, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7692" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7692" rel="nofollow">7692</a>; von Aulock <i>Pisid</i>. I, 1090–2; SNG France 1655; Imhoof-Blumer 386, no. 1. </font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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