Got myself this coin, which I haven't received yet. Hope I don't jinx it. I just like depictions of the Senate on coins and research places I had never heard of. From Tabala, a village near the river Hermus, known only from coins; it was essentially a village, but minted its own coinage. Cities in Asia were part of a senatorial province and consequently wanted to advertise this status and to display this aspect of their relationship with the Roman senate by placing representations of the personified senate on coins. Pseudo-autonomous civic coinage Æ 22, Lydia, Tabala, 138 – 192 AD, Antonine Era 22 mm, 5.56 g, 5h RPC IV.2, 9941(temporary); SNG Copenhagen 562; Hochard 2348d, pl. 137; GRPC Lydia 6; SNG von Aulock 3190 From the Clive Foss Collection formed from the 1950's through 1980's. Ob.: IEPA CYNKΛHTOC, draped bare-headed bust of the Senate to right Rev.: TABAΛEΩN EΡMOC, River-god Hermos reclining to left, holding reed and cornucopia, resting elbow on urn from which water flows. Please share your coins from Tabala or Lydia or Senate or anything relevant. Picture courtesy Herakles Numismatic
Very cool coin! Here are my busts of Senate from Phrygia, Sebaste and Grimenothyrae: Phrygia, Sebaste AE (27mm, 8.07g), temp. Elagabalus or Severus Alexander. Obv: Senate. Rev: Zeus. Ref: RPC VI 5681. Prov: Ex Pierre Strauss (1922-1995), R.C. Lockett (1873-1950), Cornelius Vermeule (1925-2008). Phrygia, Grimenothyrae AE (23.5mm, 7.36g), Magistrate Tullius, temp. Trajan. Obv: Senate. Rev: Men holding pinecone. Ref: Von Aulock, Phrygiens II 340 = Lindgren & Kovacs 955 = AsiaMinorCoins 3158 = RPC III 2482 Ex. 17 = this coin. Prov: Ex G. Drewry (1928- ), M.B. Burstein, H.C. Lindgren (1914-2005). I do like collecting coins that were in the collections of numismatic authors, but I don't have any Clive Foss's yet. (I've noticed some at CNG recently.) Or his books. I was aware of his Arab-Byzantine book(s), but not Roman Historical Coins, suggested by Victor C above. That one looks like a good start.
Perry Siegel at Herkules on Vcoins has coins of Clive Foss. It is there were I found and bought the OP
Very nice coin of Grimenothyrae. That's a city you don't find very often. I'll have to check my spreadsheet on Men top sees if I have that city listed.
