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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8278663, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;ve posted this before, but it&#039;s my only coin from Philadelphia in Lydia. By the time this coin was issued, Lydia belonged to Rome, so this is what I usually call a &quot;Republican Provincial&quot; coin (rather than a Greek coin or a Roman Provincial coin -- a category that RPC defines as beginning with Augustus although it does encompass some earlier coins). I think this coin has the &quot;distinction&quot; of having my oldest specific catalog citation, to the Mionnet catalog published in 1809, in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars. So this coin type has been known for a very long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lydia, Philadelphia, AE 17, Late 2nd/Early 1st Centuries BCE, Hermippos, son of Hermogenes, archiereus [magistrate]. Obv. Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy-wreath and band across forehead, [Φ]ΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕ[ΩΝ] vertically behind / Rev. Spotted pantheress [leopard] walking left, with head turned back to right, cradling thyrsos bound with fillet (ribbon) against left shoulder, right foreleg raised; ΑΡΧΙΕΡ-ΕΥΣ above, ΕΡΜΙΠΠΟΣ in exergue. Seaby II 4720 [Sear, D., <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. II, Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979), at p. 430 (ill.)]; BMC 22 Lydia 16 [Head, B.V. <i>A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Lydia</i> (London 1901) at p. 189]; SNG Von Aulock II 3057 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock, Vol. 2: Caria, Lydia, Phrygia, Lycia, Pamphylia</i>&nbsp; (Berlin 1962)]; SNG Copenhagen 340 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 27, Lydia Part 1</i> (Copenhagen 1947)]; Imhoof-Blumer 8 [Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, <i>Lydische Stadtmünzen, neue Untersuchungen</i> (Leipzig 1897) at pp. 114-115]; Mionnet IV No. 536 [Mionnet, Théodore E., <i>Description de Médailles antiques grecques et romaines, Vol. IV, Lydie</i> (Paris 1809) at p. 98]. 17 mm., 5.02 g.&nbsp; [With old collector’s envelope.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461887[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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