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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Cilicia| > RP58423
Herennia Etruscilla, Augusta July 249 - April/August 253(?) A.D., Tarsos, Cilicia
|Cilicia|, |Herennia| |Etruscilla,| |Augusta| |July| |249| |-| |April/August| |253(?)| |A.D.,| |Tarsos,| |Cilicia|, The inscription A M K Γ B is a boast of this city, Πρωτη Mεγιστη Kαλλιστη, meaning First (A is the Greek number one), Greatest, and Most Beautiful of the three (Γ is the Greek number three) adjoining provinces (Cilicia, Isauria, Lycaonia). The final B (B is the Greek number two) indicates the city held two neokorie, temples dedicated to the imperial cult.
RP58423. Bronze AE 31, SNG BnF -, SNG Levante, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, SNG Hunterian -, SNG Righetti -, BMC Lycaonia -, Lindgren -, F, rough, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, weight 14.296g, maximum diameter 30.7mm, die axis 0o, obverse ANNIAN AITPOYCKIΛΛAN CE, draped bust right, crescent behind shoulders, wearing stephane, hair in horizontal ridges, plait looped at the back of neck; reverse TAPCOY MHTPOΠOΛEΩC A M K Γ B, Nike on globe left, wreath in extended right hand, palm in left; not in sources consulted, perhaps unpublished but other examples are known to Forum; SOLD










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