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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Thrace & Moesia| ▸ |Pautalia||View Options:   | | | The site of Pautalia (modern Kyustendil, Bulgaria) was settled in the Iron Age by the Thracian Dentheletes tribe. It was located near thermal springs and remains of the ancient city include a temple of Asclepios and Roman baths. In the 1990s, excavation of nearby 2nd century A.D. tumuli unearthed bronze surgical instruments and a small bronze case containing a variety of medicines. |
Almost every ancient coin can inspire questions from a curious mind. The Greek reverse legend on this coin reads, OVΛΠIAC ΠAVTAΛIAC. ΠAVTAΛIAC is Pautalia, but what and why is OVΛΠIAC? After his victories over the Dacians, Trajan enhanced the status of a number of provincial towns in Moesia Inferior and Thrace, including Pautalia, along with Serdica, Nicoplis ad Mestum, Marcianopolis, and a few others. These towns were authorized to mint coins and given the additional name Ulpia, after Trajan's father.RP38107. Bronze AE 31, Varbanov II 5411 var. (draped bust, plain head snake), Choice VF, weight 18.182 g, maximum diameter 31.2 mm, die axis 30o, Pautalia (Kyustendil, Bulgaria) mint, obverse AVT K Π CEΠTI ΓΕTANTC, laureate head right; reverse OVΛΠIAC ΠAVTAΛIAC, fourfold coiled snake, forked tail, head nimbate and radiate; rare; SOLD
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D., Pautalia, Thrace
Ancient architectural types rarely depict such accurate perspective.RP56406. Bronze AE 20, Varbanov II 4610 (same dies?), Ruzicka 258, Price-Trell 102, SNG Cop -, SNG Munchen -, SNG Righetti -, Lindgren -, BMC Thrace -, aEF, corrosion on edges, weight 2.924 g, maximum diameter 19.6 mm, die axis 45o, Pautalia (Kyustendil, Bulgaria) mint, obverse AY KAI KOMOΔOC, laureate bust right; reverse OVΛΠIAC ΠAVTAΛIAC, tetrastyle temple 3/4 view in perspective, flanked by trees, statue of Asclepius standing facing holding serpent-staff inside; rare; SOLD
Geta, 209 - c. 26 December 211 A.D., Pautalia, Thrace
The site of Pautalia (modern Kyustendil, Bulgaria) was settled in the Iron Age by the Thracian Dentheletes tribe. It was located near thermal springs and remains of the ancient city include a temple of Asklepios and Roman baths. In the 1990s, excavation of nearby 2nd century A.D. tumuli unearthed bronze surgical instruments and a small bronze case containing a variety of medicines.RP72142. Bronze pentassarion, Ruzicka Pautalia 888, Varbanov 5403 (R4), Moushmov 4350; SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, F, nice dark green patina, weight 18.678 g, maximum diameter 32.4 mm, die axis 45o, Pautalia (Kyustendil, Bulgaria) mint, 209 - c. 26 Dec 211 A.D.; obverse AYT K Π CΕΠ-TI ΓΕTANTC, laureate head right, bare right shoulder seen from behind; reverse OVΛΠIAC ΠAVTA,ΛIAC ending in exergue, bearded river-god Strymon seated left on waves, nude to waist, himation wrapped around hips and legs, with end draped over left arm, raising a bundle of reeds in right hand, left forearm resting on toppled urn behind from which water flows, small human figure standing right below collecting water; large 32mm bronze, ex Henrik Agndal collection; SOLD
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