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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Severus Alexander| > RP51389
Severus Alexander, 13 March 222 - March 235 A.D., Neocaesarea, Pontus
|Severus| |Alexander|, |Severus| |Alexander,| |13| |March| |222| |-| |March| |235| |A.D.,| |Neocaesarea,| |Pontus|, Neocaesarea (modern Niksar, Turkey) was a favorite residences of Mithridates the Great and later of King Polemon and his successors. Pompey made it a city and gave it the name of Diopolis, while Pythodoris widow of Polemon, made it her capital and called it Sebaste. Judging from its coins the city was probably renamed Neocaesarea during the reign of Tiberius. In 344 and again in 499 the city was destroyed by an earthquake.
RP51389. Bronze AE 29, Rec Gen 46; SNGvA 104; cf. BMC Pontus p. 34, 12 (Gordian III), aVF, Neocaesarea mint, weight 15.035g, maximum diameter 29.1mm, die axis 180o, 222 - 235 A.D.; obverse AY K M AY XE AΛEΞANΔΠOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse KOI ΠONTO NEOKEC MH, Agnostic table with prize urn and palm on top, vase below with with two palm fronds inside, ET POA in exergue; SOLD




  







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