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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientone, post: 2394357, member: 71599&quot;]Wow! Great coins coins all! Tif,your Sauromates II is amazing! </p><p><br /></p><p>Stevex6, I generally think of provincials as coins starting with Augustus, not minted by roman authority, and having Greek legends, instead of Latin, that give the city name. RPC&#039;s definition is much better than mine: </p><p><a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/intro/whatisrpc/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/intro/whatisrpc/" rel="nofollow">http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/intro/whatisrpc/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoy researching the history behind the many cities offered in provincials. Here are some of my harder to find issues:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]492247[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Achaea. Elis, Elis. Septimius Severus AE18.</b></p><p>Peloponnesus. </p><p>Obv. - ΛCEPCEBHP.. Septimius Severus laureate, head rt. </p><p>Rev. - HΛEIWΝ Zeus standing rt. holding eagle in left hand and throwing lightning bolt with rt. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]492248[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Epirus, Nikopolis, AE18. Augustus / Head of boar</b></p><p>Obv: AVGOVCTO CKTICTHC, Head of Augustus r., bare.</p><p>Rev: NΕIΚΟΠΟ(Λ) ΕW(C), Head of boar r.</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC I says on p. 272: &quot;C.M. Kraay pointed out (NC 1975, pp. 235-</p><p>47), many of the &#039;automomous&#039; and Augustan coins, dated to the </p><p>reign of Augustus by Oikodominou, are in fact later, ranging from</p><p>a few of the reign of Augustus down to the third century (post-</p><p>humous coins were struck for Augustus in the reigns of Trajan,</p><p>Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, perhaps Commodus, perhaps Caracalla,</p><p>and Valerian).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Nikopolis, Epirus was founded in 31 BC by Octavian in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium the previous year.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]492249[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Phrygia, Hierapolis in alliance with Ephesus. AE22 Pseudo-autonomous. Boule/Men.</b></p><p>Obv: IEPAPOLEITWN K EFECIWN, Veiled bust of Boule r.</p><p>Rev: NEWKOPWN OMON(OIA), Men in Phrygian cap standing r., head l., r. foot on bull&#039;s skull, holding pine cone and scepter.</p><p><br /></p><p>BMC 187, pl. 52.5 and SNG Copenhagen 470, but seems to be from new dies on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commemorating the harmony with Ephesus in Ionia, assigned to the time of Valerian/Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to Curtis Clay for help with attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]492250[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Sarmatia, Tyra. Julia Domna AE24. Cybele</b></p><p>Obv: TVPA NWN. Bust of Domna r., draped.</p><p>Rev: IOVLADO MNA CE. Kybele seated r., wearing mural crown; in her r., patera; beneath l. elbow, tympanon; behind, delta.</p><p>BMC 2[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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