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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2978452, member: 82322&quot;]Laodicea Combusta is not the most common mint so congratulations!&nbsp; I wonder how it was discovered that the figure on the reverse is Cybele.&nbsp; Are those her attributes?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a coin of Lycaonia with a similar reverse.&nbsp; I think <i>RPC</i> assigns this to the time of Claudius to Hadrian.&nbsp; It is quite possible it was minted under Titus; there are other coins of Iconium with Titus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732339[/ATTACH] </p><p>Lycaonia, Iconium, 41-138 AD (time of Claudius-Hadrian), AE 14. 2.24g</p><p>Obv: Winged gorgoneion, snake ties below chin, within border of large beads.</p><p>Rev: ΚΛΑΥΔΕΙΚΟΝΙΕΩΝ; Seated figure (Cybele, Tyche, or Hades?) left, holding patera, left arm resting on (?), wearing mural crown (or kalathos?), animal at feet, within beaded boarder.</p><p><i>RPC Supplement IV</i> 1608B; Von Aulock <i>Lykaonions</i> 252</p><p>ex-Münzen &amp; Medaillen Gmbh (DE), auction 19, May 2006, lot 443[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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