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Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D., Perinthus, Thrace
Perinthos, later called Heraclea and Marmara Eregli today, is 90 km west of Istanbul near a small pointed headland on the north shore of the Marmara Sea. It is said to have been a Samian colony, founded about 599 B.C. It is famous chiefly for its stubborn and successful resistance to Philip II of Macedon in 340 B.C.; at that time it seems to have been more important than Byzantium itself. In 46 A.D., after the death of the Thracian king Rhoemetalces III and after an unsuccessful anti-Roman revolt, the Thracian Kingdom was annexed by Claudius as the Roman province of Thracia. Perinthus was made the capital of Roman Thracia.RP99960. Bronze AE 22, Schönert-Geiss Perinthos 342; RPC Online III 694; Varbanov III 69 (R3); BMC Thrace p. 149, 19, VF, nice green patina, areas of mild corrosion, earthen encrustations, rev. slightly off center, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, weight 7.549g, maximum diameter 21.5mm, die axis 180o, 98 - 102 A.D.; obverse AY K NE TPAIANOIΣ ΣEBA Γ, radiate head right; reverse ΠEPIN-ΘIΩN, Tyche-Fortuna standing left, holding rudder by tiller in right hand, cornucopia in left; SOLD
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