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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7937192, member: 75937&quot;]I like provincials from obscure towns! I&#039;m glad you were able to acquire that coin for your <i>numophylacium</i>, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-pair-from-palaeopolis-in-pisidia.382147/#post-7676913" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-pair-from-palaeopolis-in-pisidia.382147/#post-7676913">Palaeopolis in Pisidia</a> is pretty obscure and nobody seems to know much about it or its exact location.</p><p><br /></p><p>You won&#039;t find this city in your collection, though -- it didn&#039;t issue coins in the Flavian period. Rather, the city issued coins from the early Antoninine period (Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, Faustina II under Pius, and some semi-autonomous issues) through the late Severan period (Elagabalus, Mamaea, and Severus Alexander). </p><p><br /></p><p>This husband-wife pair (or cousin-cousin pair or step-brother and step-sister pair) are thus among the first coins issued by the city. RPC dates the coins to &quot;soon after 147&quot; and I would agree. Marcus Aurelius bears the title Caesar and is clean-shaven, while Faustina&#039;s coiffure is that seen on her imperial issues dating from AD 147-149.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/marcus-aurelius-palaeopolis-apollo-jpg.1319668/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Marcus Aurelius, Caesar AD 139-161.</p><p>Roman Provincial Æ 17.5 mm, 2.88 g, 7 h.</p><p>Pisidia, Palaeopolis, shortly after AD 147. </p><p>Obv: ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ, nude Apollo standing facing, head left, quiver at shoulder, holding laurel-branch, resting arm on lyre. </p><p>Refs: RPC IV.3 <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7691" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7691" rel="nofollow">7691</a> (temporary); SNG BnF 1654; von Aulock Pisidiens 1086-9.</p><p><br /></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><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 19.5 mm, 5.14 g, 6 h.</p><p>Pisidia, Palaeopolis, shortly after AD 147.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤ; draped bust of Faustina II, right, with early coiffure.</p><p>Reverse: ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ; Mên standing, left, wearing Phrygian cap, holding pine-cone and long scepter; behind his shoulders, crescent.</p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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