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| Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D., Amasia, Pontus |   | Second example of the type known to Forum. Dalaison lists only one example with this reverse, struck with the same die. |
| SH58899. Bronze AE 34, Dalaison 54a (D23/R44), RPC Online -, Rec Gén -, Lindgren III -, BMC -, SNGvA -, SNG Cop -, aVF, weight 24.655 g, maximum diameter 34.9 mm, die axis 180o, Amasia mint, 155 - 156 A.D.; obverse AU KAI T AI ADRI - ANTWNEINOC, laureate head right; reverse [...] M KAI PRW TOU - PONTOU, Hades-Serapis seated left, modius on head, wearing himation, with right reaching to Cerberus at his feet left, long scepter vertical behind in left, ET PNZ (year 157) inner left; big 34 mm bronze; extremely rare; $320.00 (€246.40) |
| Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Amasia, Pontos |  | Amaseia was captured by the Roman Lucullus in 70 B.C. from Armenia. Pompey designated it a free city and the administrative center of the new province of Bithynia and Pontus. Amaseia was a thriving city, the home of thinkers, writers and poets, and one of them, Strabo, left a full description of Amaseia as it was between 60 B.C. and 19 A.D. |
| RP57031. Bronze AE 31, cf. BMC Pontus p. 11, 33 (inscriptions obliterated); SNG Cop 113 (date above); SNGvA 32 (tree right); Lindgren 16 (lit altar, no eagle), F, weight 17.323 g, maximum diameter 31.3 mm, die axis 180o, Amasia mint, 206 A.D.; obverse AU KAI MAR AUR - ANTWONINOC, CEBA below bust, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse ADRCE AN[T A]MACIAC MHTNWNPON (some ligate and retrograde letters), eagle standing right on altar, wings open, head left, wreath in beak, palm tree beside altar left, ETCH (year 208) below; $110.00 (€84.70) |
| Amisos, Pontos, c. 120 - 100 B.C. |  | Amisos was settled c. 760 - 750 B.C. by people from Miletus, who established a flourishing trade relationship with the ancient peoples of Anatolia. Amisos came under the rule of the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire, and then the Kingdom of Pontus. The Romans took control in 47 B.C. and Amisos remained within the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome. In 1200, the city was captured by the Seljuks, to be later taken over by the Ilhanlilar. Amisos today is Samsun, a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. |
| GB53273. Bronze AE 26, BMC Pontus p. 20, 80, SNG Ashmolean 65-66, SNG Stancomb 669, SNG BM 1135 - 1138, SNG Cop 131, F, weight 19.895 g, maximum diameter 25.9 mm, die axis 0o, Amisos mint, c. 120 - 100 B.C.; obverse head right, wearing leather cap; reverse AMI-SOU, quiver; scarce; $105.00 (€80.85) |
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