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Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Tyana, Cappadocia
Under Caracalla the city became Antoniana colonia Tyana. After having sided with Queen Zenobia of Palmyra it was captured by Aurelian in 272, who would not allow his soldiers to sack it, allegedly because Apollo appeared to him, pleading for its safety. The ruins of Tyana are at modern Kemerhisar, three miles south of Nigde. There are remains of a Roman aqueduct and sepulchral grottoes. RP97247. Bronze AE 29, SNGvA 8732, SNG Cop VII -, BMC Galatia -, Ganschow -, F, mild smoothing, small edge crack, Tyana (Kemerhisar, Turkey) mint, weight 17.290g, maximum diameter 29.3mm, die axis 0o, 212 - 213 A.D.; obverse A KAI M AYP ANTΩNINOC, laureate head right; reverse ANT KOΛΩNIAC, emperor, radiate and togate, globe in extended right hand, plow in left hand, plowing left, marking the pomerium (sacred boundary) to found the new colony, TVANΩN / ET IΣ (year 16) in in two lines in the exergue; ex Numismatik Naumann auction 87 (1 Mar 2020), lot 345; this is the first example of this type handled by FORVM; only five sales of this type listed on Coin Archives in the last two decades, including the Naumann auction for this coin; very rare; SOLD
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