Thanks all for your appreciated informations! The pics on
CoinArchives show different rev.-legends, so one coin with WN in the ex., but that doesn't seem to change the
attribution.
Additional another coin referring to
Dionysos as founder of Nikaia. Sadly of low
quality but very interesting nevertheless.
Bithynia, Nikaia,
Caracalla, AD 198-217
AE 26, 12.35g
struck under
Caracalla as
Augustus AD 211-217
obv. ANTWNEINOC - AVGOVSTOC
Bust, draped and
cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.
rev. NIKAIEW / N (EW
ligate)
Galley over waves l., 4 oarsmen sitting ahead, helmsman standing behind, at
front
standard, at stern banner; emperor sitting l., holding spear and holding
patera in outstretched r. hand, in front of him standing
Tyche of Nikaia and
presentinhg the young
Dionysos to him, who raises
his hands to him.
Very
rare, F, unpublished?
The
rev. belongs to a coin series of Nikaia which shows the emperor in a galley where he is welcomed by the local deities of Nikaia (
cf. Rec.Gen.469f). A similar motive is found on a coin for
Gordian III, where the City
Tyche is presenting the young
Dionysos to the sitting
Roma (
Rec.Gen.Taf.84, 27)
Best regards