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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3368608, member: 56859"]Here's a huge provincial Valerian I should have posted before now but it has proven very difficult to photograph... as [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] knows. It used to be his <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]893462[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CILICIA, Tarsos. Valerian I</b></p><p>253-260 CE</p><p>AE 32 mm, 19.06 gm</p><p>Obv: AVKΛΙΠOVΛΙOVAΛЄPIANOCCЄ; Π - Π; radiate, draped, and cuirassed (?) bust right.</p><p>Rev: TAPCOVMH TP OΠOΛЄΩC; A/M/K - Γ/Γ in fields; KOINOBOVΛION ЄΛЄVΘЄ__ in exergue; Athena seated left on throne, holding cornucopia and dropping a voting pebble into amphora to left; shield below.</p><p>Ref: SNG Levante 1193; SNG BN 1821-2 (I do not have these reference books; references taken from similar ex CNG coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot going on here. Even though I've had the coin a couple of months, I still know very little about the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Per FAC, "the inscription A M K Γ Γ is a boast of Tarsos: Πρωτη Mεγιστη Kαλλιστη, meaning First (A is the Greek numeral one), Greatest, and Most Beautiful city of the three (adjoining) provinces (Cilicia, Isauria, Lycaonia). The final Γ indicates a third neokoria, which was received under Valerian."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3368608, member: 56859"]Here's a huge provincial Valerian I should have posted before now but it has proven very difficult to photograph... as [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] knows. It used to be his :). [ATTACH=full]893462[/ATTACH] [B]CILICIA, Tarsos. Valerian I[/B] 253-260 CE AE 32 mm, 19.06 gm Obv: AVKΛΙΠOVΛΙOVAΛЄPIANOCCЄ; Π - Π; radiate, draped, and cuirassed (?) bust right. Rev: TAPCOVMH TP OΠOΛЄΩC; A/M/K - Γ/Γ in fields; KOINOBOVΛION ЄΛЄVΘЄ__ in exergue; Athena seated left on throne, holding cornucopia and dropping a voting pebble into amphora to left; shield below. Ref: SNG Levante 1193; SNG BN 1821-2 (I do not have these reference books; references taken from similar ex CNG coin) There is a lot going on here. Even though I've had the coin a couple of months, I still know very little about the coin. Per FAC, "the inscription A M K Γ Γ is a boast of Tarsos: Πρωτη Mεγιστη Kαλλιστη, meaning First (A is the Greek numeral one), Greatest, and Most Beautiful city of the three (adjoining) provinces (Cilicia, Isauria, Lycaonia). The final Γ indicates a third neokoria, which was received under Valerian."[/QUOTE]
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