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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Other Lydia| > RP86475
Tripolis, Lydia, 14 - 37 A.D.
|Other| |Lydia|, |Tripolis,| |Lydia,| |14| |-| |37| |A.D.|, Tripolis on the Meander (called at other times Neapolis, Apollonia, and Antoninopolis) was an ancient city on the borders of Phrygia, Caria and Lydia, on the northern bank of the upper course of the Maeander, and on the road leading from Sardes by Philadelphia to Laodicea ad Lycum. It was 20 km to the northwest of Hierapolis. Ruins are near Yenicekent, Denizli Province, Turkey. The ruins, mostly from the Roman and Byzantine periods, include a theater, baths, city walls, and a necropolis. An ancient church, dating back 1,500 years, was unearthed in 2013.
RP86475. Bronze AE 15, RPC I 3053 var. (obv. legend on right), SNG Cop 741 var. (same), SNG Munchen 810 var. (same), SNGvA -; SNG Tübingen -; BMC Lydia -, Lindgren -, VF, nice blue green patina, tight flan, small spots of light corrosion, Lydia, Tripolis (near Yenicekent, Turkey) mint, weight 3.454g, maximum diameter 15.4mm, die axis 180o, magistrate Hieratikos, 14 - 37 A.D.; obverse ΣEBAΣTH downward on left, bust of Livia left; reverse club, IEPATIKO/Σ in two lines downward on left, TPIΠOΛEI/TΩN in two lines upward on right; all examples in references have the obverse legend on the right behind Livia but we know of several other examples with the legend on the left; very rare; SOLD



  






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