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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3933616, member: 74834&quot;]Some weeks ago, I tried my luck on a new auction on Biddr. Although I have maybe already too many Roman Provincial coins, I decided to go now for a few large Provincials with unusual reverses ([USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] inspired me to look this way, branching off from my standard <i>Go for Portraits, Best Condition</i> drive) on Zeus Auctions Nr. 1 (in Britain).</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first of them, a 32 mm coin from Anazarbus, Cilicia. It’s about 20 miles east of Adana, in the armpit of nowadays Turkey, not far from Tarsus, that other great city of Cilicia, where Paulus was born.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s a Koinoboulion type, that represents <i>voting in a community council</i>: the personification of the vote, a female holding a cornucopia, seating on a chair behind a flowering branch, tosses a pebble in a vessel. The surrounding text says something like ‘The metropolis of Anazarbos/ the freedom of the council’ and the year: ET Gamma-Xi-Sigma = 263, that’s 244/5, the first year of the emperor Philip the Arab. And he&#039;s the man on the obverse with his radiate crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>Koinoboulion types exist for several emperors of Anazarbos, but they are uncommon. So – I’m glad to have found this!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1036735[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Cilicia, Anazarbus. Philip I. AD 244-249. AE32. Dated CY 263 (AD 244/5). Obv. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Rev. Koinoboulion, the (female) personification of the free community council seated left, holding a cornucopia and tossing a pebble in a vase; tree to left. ET ΓΞC (date) in legend. 32 mm, 16.50 gr. Ziegler 736; SNG France –; SNG Levante 1491 ; SNG von Aulock 5504; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Paul/Downloads/SNG_TAHBERER_-_CILICIA_PART_2_CATALOGUE.pdf" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Paul/Downloads/SNG_TAHBERER_-_CILICIA_PART_2_CATALOGUE.pdf">Tahberer 432</a>. 6 different on ACSearch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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