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Tomis (Constanta, Romania today) was a Greek colony founded around 600 B.C. on the Black Sea shore for trade with the local Getic populations. In 29 B.C. the Romans captured the region, which they called Limes Scythicus, from the Odryses. The Roman poet Ovid was banished by Augustus to Tomis in 8 A.D. and died there eight years later. By his account, Tomis was "a town located in a war-stricken cultural wasteland on the remotest margins of the empire." The city was later in the Province of Moesia, and, from the time of Diocletian, it was the metropolis of Scythia Minor. During Maurice's Balkan campaigns, in the winter of 597/598, Tomis was besieged by the Avars. Tomis included in the Bulgarian Empire for over 500 years, later in the independent principality of Dobrotitsa/Dobrotici, in Wallachia under Mircea I of Wallachia, and under Ottoman rule from around 1419. Tomis was renamed "Kwnstantia" ("Constantia") in honor of Constantia, the half-sister of Constantine the Great sometime before 950.

Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Tomis, Moesia Inferior
	Hera was the wife and older sister of Zeus. She was a goddess of women and marriage. The cow and the peacock were sacred to her.

RP48668. Bronze 4 assaria, AMNG I/II 3390, VF, weight 12.487 g, maximum diameter 27.6 mm, die axis 190^o, Tomis mint, obverse AUT K M ANT GORDIANOC AUG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, from behind; reverse MHTRO PONTOU TOMEWC, Hera standing half left, patera in right, scepter in left, D left; nice portrait; $185.00 (�142.45)

Maximus, Caesar, 235 or 236 - 24 June 238 A.D., Tomis, Moesia Inferior
	Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Agl�a, and Panacea (literally, "all-healing") symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively.

RP63887. Bronze diassarion, Varbanov I 5507, AMNG I/II 3360, VF, green patina, weight 6.027 g, maximum diameter 22.181 mm, die axis 80^o, Tomis mint, obverse G IOUL OUHR MAXIMOC KAIC, bare head right; reverse MHTRO PON TOMEWC, Asklepios standing slightly right, head left, staff with serpent coiled around it in right, B left; $170.00 (�130.90)

Tomis, Moesia Inferior, 2nd Century B.C.
	Tomis (Constanta, Romania today) was founded by Greek colonists around 600 B.C. on the Black Sea shore for trade with the local Getic population.

GB54172. Bronze AE 28, SNG BM Black Sea 301 ff. var (TOMI above eagle, different magistrates), 302 same countermark; AMNG I/II 2407 ff. var (same); SNG Stancomb -, SNG Cop -, F, nice green patina, weight 9.674 g, maximum diameter 27.8 mm, die axis 0^o, Tomis mint, 2nd Century B.C.; obverse head of Great God diademed and bearded right, countermark: helmeted head right in a round punch; reverse TO-MI (divided by eagles head) / NO... (below, magistrate), eagle right, wings closed, all within wreath; high relief obverse, reverse flattened by application of the countermark; very rare; $120.00 (�92.40)

Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Tomis, Moesia Inferior
	The Roman poet Ovid was banished by Augustus to Tomis in 8 A.D. and died there eight years later. By his account, Tomis was "a town located in a war-stricken cultural wasteland on the remotest margins of the empire."

RP48205. Bronze AE 27, Varbanov 5567, AMNG I/II 3402, VF, cleaning scratches, weight 13.328 g, maximum diameter 26.8 mm, die axis 30^o, Tomis mint, obverse AUT K M ANT GORDIANOC AUG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, from front; reverse MHTRO PONTOU TOMEWC (final C in right field), Demeter standing left, grain and poppy in right, long torch vertical in left, D left; $110.00 (�84.70)

Septimius Severus, 9 April 193 - 4 February 211 A.D., Tomis, Moesia Inferior

Artemis is depicted here in the same pose as The Diana of Versailles, a slightly over life-size Roman marble statue from the 1st or 2nd century A.D., copying a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 B.C. The sculpture has a stag at her side, rather than a hound. The sculpture may have come from a sanctuary at Nemi or possibly from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. In 1556, it was given by Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France, a subtle allusion to the king's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. It is now in in the Mus�e du Louvre, Paris.

RP48184. Bronze AE 27, Varbanov 4799, AMNG I 2742, aVF, weight 11.080 g, maximum diameter 26.6 mm, die axis 225^o, Tomis mint, obverse A K L CEP CEUHROC P, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, from behind; reverse MHTRO PONTOU TOMEWC, Artemis advancing right, bow in left, drawing arrow from quiver with right, hound at feet, D in left field; interesting portrait; $85.00 (�65.45)

Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D., Tomis, Moesia Inferior
	The Roman poet Ovid was banished by Augustus to Tomis in 8 A.D. and died there eight years later. By his account, Tomis was "a town located in a war-stricken cultural wasteland on the remotest margins of the empire."

RP48186. Bronze AE 26, Varbanov 4775 var (obv legend), aVF, weight 8.586 g, maximum diameter 25.6 mm, die axis 180^o, Tomis mint, obverse AUT K L AIL AUR KOMODOC, laureate head right; reverse MHTROP PONTOU TOMEWC, Nike advancing right, wreath in extended left, palm over shoulder in right, G in right field; $60.00 (�46.20)

Tomis, Moesia Inferior, c. Late 1st Century B.C. - Mid 1st Century A.D.
	Tomis (Constanta, Romania today) was founded by Greek colonists around 600 B.C. on the Black Sea shore for trade with the local Getic population.

BB60429. Bronze AE 16, RPC I 1819, AMNG I 2513, aF, weight 1.765 g, maximum diameter 15.7 mm, die axis 0^o, Tomis mint, obverse veiled head of Demeter right, ear of grain before; reverse TO-MI/TW-N, APOLW, two ears of grain; $34.00 (�26.18)

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