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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Thyatira| > RP96952
Thyateira, Lydia, c. 222 - 235 A.D.
|Thyatira|, |Thyateira,| |Lydia,| |c.| |222| |-| |235| |A.D.|, Thyateira (also Thyatira) is the ancient name of the modern Turkish city of Akhisar ("white castle"). In Revelation, Thyatira is the church that had a false prophetess (Revelation 2:20).
RP96952. Bronze AE 22, GRPC Lydia 124; SNGvA 3215; SNG Munchen 602; SNG Leypold I 1274; SNG Tire 490; SNG Odemis 423; BMC Lydia p. 301, 54; SNG Cop -, aVF, excellent centering, porosity, part of reverse legend weak, Thyatira (Akhisar, Turkey) mint, weight 5.220g, maximum diameter 21.9mm, die axis 180o, strategos M. Pollianos, c. 222 - 235 A.D.; obverse ΘYATEIPA, turreted and draped bust of the city-goddess Tyche-Thyatira right; reverse ΘYATEIP-H,NΩN (last three letters in exergue), river-god Lykos reclining left, shoulders, chest, and legs bare, reed in right hand, resting with left forearm on overturned urn from which water flows; zero sales of this type on Coin Archives in the last two decades; SOLD











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