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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Pontos| > RP88159
Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Trapezus, Pontos
|Pontos|, |Gordian| |III,| |29| |July| |238| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Trapezus,| |Pontos|, Trabzon (Greek: Trebizond, Latin: Trapezus) was important for access to roads over the Zigana Pass to Armenia and the upper Euphrates valley. Under Vespasian, new roads were constructed from Persia and Mesopotamia. Hadrian visited the city in the 129 and commissioned improvements to the harbor. Trapezus suffered for supporting Pescennius Niger; after he lost to Septimius Severus in a civil war. In 257 the city was pillaged by the Goths, despite two bands of walls and a guard "10,000 above its usual garrison." Recovery was slow, but an inscription dating to the reign of Diocletian mentions the restoration. The martyrdom of Eugenius, the patron saint of the city, was during the reign of Diocletian. Eugenius had destroyed the statue of Mithras which overlooked the city from Mount Minthrion.
RP88159. Bronze tetrassarion, Lindgren-Kovacs 54 (same dies); SNGvA 140 (same obv. die); Rec Gén p. 114, 48 & pl. 16, 7; SNG Cop -; BMC Pontus -, gVF, green patina, broad flan, reverse off center, some porosity, edge split, Trapezus (Trabzon, Turkey) mint, weight 13.254g, maximum diameter 30.6mm, die axis 180o, 243 - 244 A.D.; obverse AV K M AN ΓOPΔIANOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse TPAΠEZOVNTIΩN (Z reversed, Ω appearing reversed S), turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right, ET - Π/P (year 180) divided across field; very rare; SOLD











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