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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7664046, member: 75937&quot;]This town is <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E2tZfrXnmQZcb9XAQKHUQCTLOzFUsKeHfHJBfowiAwc/edit#gid=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E2tZfrXnmQZcb9XAQKHUQCTLOzFUsKeHfHJBfowiAwc/edit#gid=0" rel="nofollow">on the list</a>, 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). </p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1317287[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 19.5 mm, 5.14 g, 6 h.</p><p>Pisidia, Palaeopolis, AD 148-150.</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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