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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Cilicia| > SH57169
Maximus, Caesar, 235 or 236 - 24 June 238 A.D., Tarsus, Cilicia
|Cilicia|, |Maximus,| |Caesar,| |235| |or| |236| |-| |24| |June| |238| |A.D.,| |Tarsus,| |Cilicia|, The inscription A M K Γ B is a boast of Tarsos: Πρωτη Mεγιστη Kαλλιστη, First (A is the Greek numeral one), Greatest, and Most Beautiful city of the three (adjoining) provinces (Cilicia, Isauria, Lycaonia).
SH57169. Bronze AE 35, SNG Levante -, SNG BnF -, SNGvA -, SNG Cop -, BMC Lycaonia -, SNG PfPS -, Lindgren -, gF, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, weight 16.165g, maximum diameter 35.0mm, die axis 180o, 235 - 238 A.D.; obverse Γ IOY OYH MAΞIMOC KAIC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse TAPCOV THC MHTPOΠOΛEWC, male figure (Maximus?) standing left, branch pointed downward in right, Γ / B in left field, A / M / K in right field; big 35mm bronze, the only example of this type known to Forum!; extremely rare; SOLD










OBVERSE LEGENDS

CIVLVERVSMAXIMVSCAES
ILVVERVSMAXIMVSCAES
MAXIMVSCAESGERM
MAXIMVSCAESARGERM

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