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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2815330, member: 82322&quot;][ATTACH=full]659787[/ATTACH] </p><p>Lydia, Hierocaesareia, time of Trajan (98 to 117 AD). 23mm; 9.2 g</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: ΙƐΡΟΚΑΙС[ΑΡ]ƐΙΑ; turreted and draped bust of Tyche, r.</p><p>Rev: ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΩ ΦΕΡΟΚΙ; Perseus nude standing facing, head l., holding harpa in r. hand, head of Gorgon in l.</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC vol. 3 #<a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1848/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1848/" rel="nofollow">1848</a>, Stumpf 566. </p><p><br /></p><p>The town was originally called Hieracome from an ancient sanctuary of Artemis Persikae. The name Hierocaesareia was conferred upon it by Tiberius. The coin types refer to the cultus of the Persic Artemis and of Perseus. The site of Hierocaesarea must have been between the modern Turkish villages of Beyova and Sasova, seven or eight miles southeast of Thyatira, on the left bank of the Koum-Chai river.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two examples in RPC online.&nbsp; This one, although it has a gouge on the reverse, is nicer than the picture in RPC online.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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