Hello dear
forum, this is my first coin from
Caesarea,
Cappadocia and therefore I
still have some difficulties to determine this one for sure. Especially since I know very little about the mintings so far. I would be very pleased about your
help and thank you very much in advance.
The Mount
Argaeus shown on the
reverse is known to me in the meantime - there is a very informative PDF publication about it at Academica.
Unfortunately, when I bought this coin, I only have the following information:
Septimius Severus (oh what), 193-211 AD,
Caesarea,
Cappadocia,
weight 2.9g and
diameter 18mm.
1. in some dealers I read that this is a diadrachm, other dealers write something about a tridrachm to this
type. Who is right now?
2. unfortunately I have no print literature and can not find this exact
type. Does anyone have a reference for me on
SNG,
RPC or something else?
3. the
inscription on the
obverse should read like this - is this correct?
AY KAI Λ CЄΠ CЄOYHPOC
= AV KAI L
SEP SEPHROS
=
Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus4. the
inscription on the back should read like this - is this correct?
MHTPO KAICAP NЄΩ
= METRO KAISAR
(NЄΩ]
= (the) Metropolitans (of)
Caesarea (NЄΩ)
Ok, I
still don't understand the abbreviation to NЄΩ.
5. the
inscription ЄTIZ is the time / date / year. But I have not found any comparison coin with ЄTIZ. What translation is ЄTIZ and what year is this?
I know this from my Electron
Stater from Bosporos:
https://roma-aeterna.de/roemische-kaiserzeit/m0110_pantikapaion_gold_stater_lucius_septimius_severus_pertinax/ Here I have the time ΓqV.
Γ = gamma = 3
q = Koppa = 90
V = Ypsilon = 400
Gamma (3) + Koppa (90) + Ypsilon (400) = 493
Dated year 493 of the Bosporan era = 196/197 AD.
But how did they calculate in
Cappadocia?
Thanks already for any
help!