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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4305770, member: 57495"]Interesting writeup and coin, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]. Below is a pseudo-autonomous issue from Seleucia Pieria that I found interesting because the obverse legend (some of it missing) reads [ΙЄ]Ρ ΑϹΥΛ ΑΥΤΟΝ[ΟΜΟΥ], which translates to "holy, inviolable and autonomous". Not withstanding the trumpeting, these were apparently issued at the same time the city also struck coins with the same reverse type but the portrait of Trajan on the obverse. I don't have an example of one of those, but of the two varieties, the one with the imperial portrait is more common. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095533[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria</b></p><p>AE20. 5.89g, 20mm. SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria, Seleucia Pieria. Pseudo-autonomous issue, time of Trajan, AD 98-117. RPC III 3791. O: [ΙЄ]Ρ ΑϹΥΛ ΑΥΤΟΝ[ΟΜΟΥ], Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right, palm branch over her right shoulder. R: СЄΛЄΥΚЄωΝ ΠЄΙЄΡΙΑС - ZЄYC / KACIOC, Sacred stone of Zeus Kasios with fillet attached within shrine consisting of four pillars supporting a pyramidal roof surmounted by an eagle; to lower right, Є[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4305770, member: 57495"]Interesting writeup and coin, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]. Below is a pseudo-autonomous issue from Seleucia Pieria that I found interesting because the obverse legend (some of it missing) reads [ΙЄ]Ρ ΑϹΥΛ ΑΥΤΟΝ[ΟΜΟΥ], which translates to "holy, inviolable and autonomous". Not withstanding the trumpeting, these were apparently issued at the same time the city also struck coins with the same reverse type but the portrait of Trajan on the obverse. I don't have an example of one of those, but of the two varieties, the one with the imperial portrait is more common. [ATTACH=full]1095533[/ATTACH] [B]SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria[/B] AE20. 5.89g, 20mm. SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria, Seleucia Pieria. Pseudo-autonomous issue, time of Trajan, AD 98-117. RPC III 3791. O: [ΙЄ]Ρ ΑϹΥΛ ΑΥΤΟΝ[ΟΜΟΥ], Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right, palm branch over her right shoulder. R: СЄΛЄΥΚЄωΝ ΠЄΙЄΡΙΑС - ZЄYC / KACIOC, Sacred stone of Zeus Kasios with fillet attached within shrine consisting of four pillars supporting a pyramidal roof surmounted by an eagle; to lower right, Є[/QUOTE]
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