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Coin Type: A semi-autonomous bronze coin of Thyateira in Lydia in homonoia with Smyrna in Ionia. Mint and Date: Thyateira, time of Gordian III, 238-244 CE Size and Weight: 22mm, 5.42g Obverse: BOPЄI-THNH Draped bust of Artemis Boreitene left. Reverse: ΘYATE CMY•P OMONOIA Poseidon, naked, standing right, holding a tall trident in his left hand and a dolphin in his outstretched right hand, resting right foot on prow. Provenance: Wcnconline (eBay), December 2008 Ref: Lindgren 837; Franke/Nollé, Die Homonoia-Münzen Kleinasiens, 1997, same dies as nos. 2331-5, pl. 99; Mionnet IV 153, 869 BW Ref: 001 039 136 |
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Note 1: The dot or pellet in the reverse legend in the abbreviated ethnic for Smyrna is an error. Note 2: The "homonoia" signalled by this coin was some sort of alliance, the full nature of which is not now known. Homonoia signalled like-mindedness. It was not a military alliance, and might have been a trade agreement or even an agreement on the extradition of criminals. There were many such arrangements in the eastern Roman provinces around that time. Thyateira had a similar arrangement with Pergamon. | |
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