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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Other Lydia| > GB85348
Marcus Aurelius, 7 March 161 - 17 March 180 A.D., Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia
|Other| |Lydia|, |Marcus| |Aurelius,| |7| |March| |161| |-| |17| |March| |180| |A.D.,| |Magnesia| |ad| |Sipylum,| |Lydia|, Magnesia ad Sipylum was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna (now Izmir) on the river Hermus (now Gediz) at the foot of Spil Mount. Nowadays this is the location of Manisa in Turkey. It became a city of importance under the Roman dominion and, though nearly destroyed by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius, was restored by that emperor and flourished through the Roman Empire.

Ploutos the personification of wealth is the son of Eirene, goddess of peace.
GB85348. Bronze AE 15, GRPC Lydia p. 20, 137 (this coin); RPC Online VI 1330; BMC Lydia p. 147, 59; SNG Cop 262; SNG Mün 268; SNG Leypold 1040; Waddington 5082; SNGvA -, VF, porous, die break obverse lower left, Magnesia ad Sipylum (Manisa, Turkey) mint, weight 2.788g, maximum diameter 15.1mm, die axis 180o, as caesar, c. 140 A.D.; obverse KAI AYPHΛIOC, bare-headed, draped bust right, slight beard; reverse MAΓNHTΩN XIΠYΛOY, Ploutos (wealth), personified as as a child, standing left, clad in short chiton, which he raises in front above his waist with both hands, he carries fruit in its folds; SOLD











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