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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3528148, member: 75937"]Not the highest-grade example of this scarce provincial but easy to attribute because it was issued in only a single year and with a very limited set of dies. It was issued as one of a set of three coins in AD 113/114, each depicting Trajan on the obverse and one of his female relatives – Plotina (this coin), Marciana (Von Aulock 5476), and Matidia (Von Aulock 5477) – on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your coins of Plotina, of Anazarbus, or whatever you feel is relevant.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]937645[/ATTACH]</p><p>Caesarea ad Anazarbus (Greek Ἀναζαρβός, modern Ağaçli) was a city of the ancient province of Cilicia in what is now south-central Turkey. It was originally founded by the Assyrians but was largely abandoned by Roman imperial times. The original native settlement was refounded by the Romans in 19 BC, following a visit by Augustus. The coinage of this city is typically dated relative to the year of its refounding. Among cities in Cilicia, it was second only to Tarsus in population.</p><p><br /></p><p>The city was home to Oppian (Greek Ὀππιανός), a minor Greco-Roman poet active during the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Under Diocletian, Cilicia was divided into two provinces and Anazarbus was made capital of one of them, Cilicia Secunda. Anazarbus was an archbishopric under the Byzantine Empire. After its devastation by earthquakes in the 6th century, it was rebuilt, first as Justinopolis, later as Justinianopolis.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]937646[/ATTACH]</p><p>Trajan and Plotina, AD 98-117.</p><p>Roman Æ triassarion, 19.72 g, 28.7 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Cilicia, Anazarbos, year 132 = AD 113-114.</p><p>Obv: AYTO KAI NЄP TPAIANOC CЄ ΓЄP ΔA, laureate head of Trajan, right.</p><p>Rev: KAICAPЄ ANAZAPBΩ ΠΛΩTЄINAN CЄ, diademed and draped bust of Plotina, right; in field, ЄT - BΛP (year 132).</p><p>Refs: SNG Levante 1384; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3369/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3369/" rel="nofollow">RPC 3369</a>; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/abbreviations/#ziegler" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/abbreviations/#ziegler" rel="nofollow">Ziegler</a> 115-121.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
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