Featured Roman Provincial Coin Cities-- How many can we cover?

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  1. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Added:

    Castulo, Spain (can't believe no one had posted one in this thread until now!)
    Gades, Spain
    Julia Traducta, Spain
    Saguntum, Spain
    Daldis, Lydia
    Prusa ad Olympum, Bithynia

    @Okidoki, regarding your Hadrian from Tyra, I have Tyra listed as a city in Sarmatia. Is this a different Tyra?

    The list is likely not complete. I compiled it from a couple of sources but there could easily be missing cities, or differently spelled cities. If you come across a coin from an unlisted city, please let me know :).
     
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  3. bcuda

    bcuda El Ibérico loco

    Ok well I will add Asido (Spain) that is not on the list.

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    Asido
    Ancient Spain 110 BC.
    Present day Medina Sidonia.
    Phonecian and Punic.
    Obv: Melkart head facing
    forward.
    Rev: Two tunny fish right
    Libio-Phoenician legend
     
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  4. bcuda

    bcuda El Ibérico loco

    Another not on the list is Sexi (Spain)

    Sexi AE unit.jpg

    Sexi
    Spain,
    Circa 200-150 BC.
    Obv: Head of Herakles left,
    wearing lion skin headdress, club over
    shoulder
    Rev: Two tunny fish to left; aleph above,
    crescent below, Neo-Punic legend
    "MP'LSKS" within central frame.
    ACIP 819-20; SNG BM Spain 415.
    Æ Unit.13.06g, 26mm, 12h. Very Fine. Rare.
    From the Amilcare Collection.
    Roma Numismatics E-Sale auction 67,
     
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  5. bcuda

    bcuda El Ibérico loco

    One more not on the list ILIPENSE (Spain)

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    Ilipa, (ILIPENSE)
    Spain, Alcalá del Río(Sevilla)
    Iberian Celts, AE32.
    ca. 170 BC. 14.74 grams
    Obv: ILIPENSE Fish (allis shad)
    right, crescent above.
    Rev: Grain ear within
    circle of dots.
    Site of the battle of Ilipa
    during which Scipio Africanus
    crushed the Carthaginian army
    in the Second Punic War,
    bringing the whole Iberia
    under Roman control
     
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  6. bcuda

    bcuda El Ibérico loco

    Last one not on your list Sekaisa (Spain)

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    Sekaisa
    Spain,
    Circa 150-100 BC.
    Obv: Bare male head right, wearing
    beaded necklace; dolphin before,
    Iberian 'SE' behind
    Rev: Warrior on horseback right,
    holding spear; Iberian 'SEKAISA'
    in exergue. ACIP 1544; CNH 24.
    Æ Unit. 20.84g, 30mm,
     
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  7. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Thanks for finding those additional cities, @bcuda! I think the spreadsheet has caught up with the thread now. 334 provincial cities have been shown :).
     
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  8. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    CILICIA, Mallus Sabina City Goddes seated
    Reference.
    RPC III, 3326/3; I-B, ‘Mallos..’, 117/57; SNG Levante 1274

    Obv. ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ ΑΥΓ
    Draped bust of Sabina, r. with stephane

    Rev. ΜΑΛΛΩΤΩΝ
    Turreted and veiled city-goddess seated, r., holding ears of corn and poppy-head; at her feet, two river gods (Pyramos and another one) swimming in opposite directions

    11.98 gr
    28 mm
    12h
    1573 P Sabina RPC 3326.jpg
     
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  9. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    PISIDIA, Apollonia Mordiaeum Hadrian, Asclepius standing
    Reference.
    RPC III, 2779; vA Pisid. II, 67–8

    Obv. ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
    Bare head of Hadrian, r., with drapery on l. shoulder

    Rev. ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ ΛΥΚΙΩΝ
    Asclepius standing facing, head l., resting on serpent-staff with his r. hand Z in left field

    3.0 gr
    17 mm
    6h
    1559 P hadrian RPC 2779.jpg
     
  10. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    @TIF you are right its Sarmatia
     
  11. Pellinore

    Pellinore Well-Known Member

    This town is not filled in on the list, but there are several coins of Turiaso in CoinTalk. However, I rather like this coin, so I put it here anyhow.

    Coins from Spanish mints, like this one, are sometimes classified as Celtic coins, but aren't they rather Roman Provincials? Spain was firmly part of Rome since at least 80 BC, long before much of the Celtic coinage of Gaul.

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    Iberia, Turiaso. AE unit ‘As’. Tiberius, AD 14-37. Obv. Head r. TI CAESAR AVG F IMPERAT. Rev. Bull standing right, head facing. MVN TVR C CAEC SER above, II VIR before, M VAL QVAD in ex. 27 mm, 9.29 gr. It's from a recent CNG auction, where it was described as ‘From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor’.
     
  12. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    This town is on the list, but no CT member owned one ... until now. The city issued coins in 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).

    The ruins of Palaeopolis, Pisidia are very likely those at Ak Euren in the open plains of the Lysis valley in Turkey, between Olbasa and Lysinia.

    Faustina Jr Paleopolis Men.jpg
    Faustina II, AD 147-175.
    Roman provincial Æ 19.5 mm, 5.14 g, 6 h.
    Pisidia, Palaeopolis, AD 148-150.
    Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤ; draped bust of Faustina II, right, with early coiffure.
    Reverse: ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ; Mên standing, left, wearing Phrygian cap, holding pine-cone and long scepter; behind his shoulders, crescent.
    Refs: RPC IV.3, 7692; von Aulock Pisid. I, 1090–2; SNG France 1655; Imhoof-Blumer 386, no. 1.
     
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  13. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    There are so many pages I don't know what's what. Hopefully I'm not doublin up.

    Here's my contributions, in case they were missing:

    Iconium:
    Gordian III RPC Iconium 6589.JPG

    Perga:
    Gallienus AE29 SNG BnF 574.JPG
     
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    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

  15. Factor

    Factor Well-Known Member

    Just received this Antiochia ad Hippum coin from Leu. The description here is from its previous sale, New York 2019, and they actually missed one previously reported example, Sofaer 23. So not a 'unique and unpublished' but still very rare, probably second known.
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  16. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    This town is on the list, but no CT member owned one ... until now.

    The town is Otrus in Phrygia, near Hieropolis with an O in the middle, not to be confused with Hierapolis with an A in the middle. It issued coins intermittently.

    Plautilla Otrus Demeter Zeus.jpg
    Plautilla, AD 202-205.
    Roman provincial Æ 20 mm, 4.1 g.
    Phrygia, Otrus, AD 202-205.
    Obv: ΦOVΛ ΠΛ-AVTIΛΛAC, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
    Rev: OTP-O-HNΩN, Demeter standing left, holding grain ears and long torch.
    Refs: BMC 25.344,7; Von Aulock Phrygiens, 802-8; cf. SNG Cop 633.
     
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