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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Pontos| > RP110054
Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Neocaesarea, Pontus
|Pontos|, |Gordian| |III,| |29| |July| |238| |-| |25| |February| |244| |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.
RP110054. Bronze AE 28, RPC Online VII-2 2830 (10 spec.); Rec Gén I p. 93, 51; SNG Cop 218; SNGvA 6765; Waddington 77; Cizmeli 352, gF, green patina, well centered, porosity, Neocaesarea (modern Niksar, Turkey) mint, weight 14.615g, maximum diameter 28.1mm, die axis 180o, 241 - 242 A.D.; obverse AY K M ANT ΓOPΔIANO CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from the rear; reverse KOI ΠONT MH NEOKAICAPIAC, prize table with curved legs holding agonistic crown with palm, ET / PO / H (year 178) in three lines between legs; SOLD




  







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