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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24651775, member: 87809&quot;]Got myself this coin, which I haven&#039;t received yet. Hope I don&#039;t jinx it. I just like depictions of the Senate on coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />and research places I had never heard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Tabala, a village near the river Hermus, known only from coins; it was essentially a village, but minted its own coinage.</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pseudo-autonomous civic coinage</p><p>Æ 22, Lydia, Tabala, 138 – 192 AD, Antonine Era</p><p>22 mm, 5.56 g, 5h</p><p>RPC IV.2, 9941(temporary); SNG Copenhagen 562; Hochard 2348d, pl. 137;</p><p>GRPC Lydia 6; SNG von Aulock 3190</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Clive Foss Collection formed from the 1950&#039;s through 1980&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: IEPA CYNKΛHTOC, draped bare-headed bust of the Senate to right</p><p>Rev.: TABAΛEΩN EΡMOC, River-god Hermos reclining to left, holding reed and cornucopia, resting elbow on urn from which water flows.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your coins from Tabala or Lydia or Senate or anything relevant.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy Herakles Numismatic</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1570107[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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