Thanks Jochen,
Here is the text 'tidied up' a
bit:
(there may be some e's and c's that may be mixed up due to the
poor quality of the text, but I think I caught almost everything).
Page 6:
Ant. p.
AYT K M AYRHΛ ANTΩNINOC. Caput Caracallae laureatum, cum
barba & pectore nudo.
Ave.p. OYΛΠIAC ΠAYTAΛIAC. Femina decumbens, ad umbilicum usque nuda, cuius capilli nodo revincti sunt; cubito sinistro urnae, unde aquae promanant, innititur; s. vitem, cuius racemi capiri supereminent, tenet, dextra
vero colliculo vicino, de quo
Genius, onus quoddam humeris gestans, descendere videtur, imposita est, supra colliculum inscriptum est: APΓYPOC.
Iuxta dextrum feminae brachium
Genius, summo colliculi fastigio insistens, racemum ante faciem fieminae pendentem decerpit; a tergo scriptum est: BOTPY. Aquae ex urna profluenti
Genius adsidet, manibus versus aquam protensis, a tergo legitur: XPYCOC.
In exergo
Genius d. falcem messoriam, qua fruges demessurus videtur, gerit; ante ipsum quatuor aristae, a tergo quinque, cum
epigraphe: CTAXY.
There is some additional text relative to this coin on
Page 13, which I have transcribed here:
Auri & argenti fodinas in vicinia Pautaliae fuisse, Genii in numo nostro cum epigr.: APΓYPOC & XPYCOC indicant; quod & Strabo
lib.
VII. pag. 331. testimonio comprobat , dum air:
{The Greek text here was horribly degraded, so I went back to the source and here quote Strabo’s Geography, Book 7, Fragments, 34.} ὅτι πλεῖστα μέταλλά ἐστι χρυσοῦ ἐν ταῖς Κρηνίσιν, ὅπου νῦν οἱ Φίλιπποι πόλις ἵδρυται, πλησίον τοῦ Παγγαίου ὄρους: καὶ αὐτὸ δὲ τὸ Παγγαῖον ὄρος χρυσεῖα καὶ ἀργυρεῖα ἔχει μέταλλα καὶ ἡ πέραν καὶ ἡ ἐντὸς τοῦ Στρυμόνος ποταμοῦ μέχρι Παιονίας: φασὶ δὲ καὶ τοὺς τὴν Παιονίαν γῆν ἀροῦντας εὑρίσκειν χρυσοῦ τινα μόρια. {clean text via
Perseus}
Iuxta Crenidas prope Pangaeum montem, ubi bodie urbs
Philippi sita est, quam plurimae sunt auri fodinae; ipse etiam Pangaeus aureas & argenteas habet fodinas, regioque extra & intra Strymonem fluvium sita ad Paeoniam usque; narrant quoque, Paeoniae incolas, dum terram aratre versant, quasdam auri particulas invenire.
{34 1 There are very many gold mines in Crenides, where the city
Philippi541 now is situated, near Mt. Pangaeum.
542 And Mt. Pangaeum as well has gold and silver mines, as also the country across, and the country this
side, the Strymon River as far as
Paeonia. And it is further said that the people who plough the Paeonian land find nuggets of gold.} (trans. via Lacus Curtius)
Solita vini culturae frugumque abundantiae symbola sunt vitis & aristae; memorabile
vero est, hisce symbolis verba quoque adiungi ipsam rerum imaginem explicantia: BOTPY & CTAXY.
I
hope this assists others as it has assisted me.
All the best,
Walter