Something a little different

I think of them all as Roman Provincial and put them at the top of my list. I'd find the simultaneous use of the term Greek Imperial confusing, particularly for those that aren't of the Imperial period. Below is not my coin but I have one of the type (not photographed).



It's an issue of Antioch, is found in RPC, and in addition to that, is dated by year to the "Pompeian Era".

 

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Ah I see. I didn't realize there were such discrepancies in the same place around the same time!

 

Here's an example of an 'autonomous' type I picked up a few months ago...

It was identified as 'Lydia Hermocapelia-Bust of the Senate', with a 'youthful bust'---and a turreted bust of Roma?; AE-20, 2.5 grams...apparently circa 117-138 AD.

 

i was doing some coin filing and rearrangement today, so where do the nabateans go in your opinions? if understand things correctly, they were a bit more than just a client kingdom (aretas iv era)...much more autonomy? or am i wrong? currently, they are in with my greek coins?

the @John Anthony signal is on!

 

Lol, love the graphic! Well, it depends on the period. Before they were a sedentary empire, they were largely independent pastoral nomads, but variously under the authority of the Ptolemaics and Seleucids whenever they moved in their territories. From the period of Aretas III, 1st century BC, Rome considered them a client kingdom, but that was Rome's idea. The Nabataeans certainly didn't confront Rome in any substantial ways, but they were largely independent. However, over the next two centuries, they embraced Roman culture to such an extent, that when the last king (Malichus II) died, they put up no resistance to becoming a Roman province under Trajan. It must have felt like a natural consequence to most Nabataeans.

 

This one is an issue of Pergamum, dated to the 1st century AD. There are a few varieties; yours with a lituus before the bust of Roma is like this one:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1371540

These issues don't bear the name of the issuing city, but have been attributed to Pergamum because a large hoard of them were found there. The obverse legend ΘЄAN PΩMHN roughly translates to "Goddess Roma", and the reverse legend ΘЄON CYNKΛHTON to "God Senate". The Hermocapelia issues with the similar types actually spells out the name of the city.

 

Thanks so much for the clarification @zumbly!!