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Perinthos, Thrace

Perinthos an ancient Ionian colony from Samos, was situated between Bisanthe and Selymbria, on the northern shore of the Propontis. 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 Roman times it was called Heraclea Thraciae (or Heraclea Perinthus). Today it is Marmara Ereglisi in the European part of Turkey.

Perinthos, Thrace, c. 40 - 70 A.D.

|Perinthus|, |Perinthos,| |Thrace,| |c.| |40| |-| |70| |A.D.||AE| |23|
GB68075. Bronze AE 23, Schönert-Geiss Perinthos 88, RPC I 1766, SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, Lindgren -, VF, weight 6.352 g, maximum diameter 22.7 mm, die axis 270o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, c. 40 - 70 A.D.; obverse bust of Neptune right, trident before; reverse ΠEPIN/ΘIΩN, dolphin right; rare; SOLD


Poppaea Sabina, Wife of Nero, Augusta 63 - 65 A.D., Perinthus, Thrace

|Perinthus|, |Poppaea| |Sabina,| |Wife| |of| |Nero,| |Augusta| |63| |-| |65| |A.D.,| |Perinthus,| |Thrace||AE| |26|
Poppaea was renowned for her beauty and voluptuous extravagance. In 62 A.D., Nero divorced his wife Octavia to marry Poppaea. According to Tacitus, Poppaea married Otho only to get close to Nero and then, in turn, became Nero's favorite mistress, and then wife. She bore Nero one daughter, Claudia Augusta, born 21 January 63, who died at only four months of age. At the birth of Claudia, Nero honored mother and child with the title of Augusta. According to Suetonius, one day in the summer of 65, Poppaea quarreled fiercely with Nero over his spending too much time at the races. She was pregnant with her second child. In a fit of rage, Nero kicked her in the abdomen, killing her.

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. Perinthus was the capital of Roman Thracia.
RP83451. Bronze AE 26, Schonert Perinthos 259 - 271; RPC I 1756; Varbanov III 27 (R4); BMC Thrace p. 149, 15; Moushmov 4424; SGICV 6070, gF, green patina, light scratches and marks, some porosity, weight 9.709 g, maximum diameter 26.0 mm, die axis 320o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, 63 - 65 A.D.; obverse ΠOΠΠAIA ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust right, wearing stephane; reverse headdress of Isis, Π - E across field, over a stalk of grain on each side flanking base of crown, all within olive wreath; ex Pecunem auction 30, lot 290; SOLD


Nero, 13 October 54 - 9 June 68 A.D., Perinthus, Thrace

|Perinthus|, |Nero,| |13| |October| |54| |-| |9| |June| |68| |A.D.,| |Perinthus,| |Thrace||provincial| |sestertius|
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. Although the denomination is uncertain, RPC I suggests it is a sestertius.
RP87197. Brass provincial sestertius, Schonert Perinthos 233 - 235; RPC I 1754; Varbanov III 20 (R4); Moushmov 4421; BMC Thrace p. 148, 13 var. (obv. leg.); SNG Cop -, F, dark patina, some porosity, central cavities, weight 20.839 g, maximum diameter 33.2 mm, die axis 0o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, 63 - 9 Jun 68 A.D.; obverse NEPΩN KΛAYΔIOΣ KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head left; reverse ΠEPIN/ΘIΩN in two lines within oak wreath tied at the bottom; SOLD


Domitian, 13 September 81 - 18 September 96 A.D., Perinthos, Thrace

|Perinthus|, |Domitian,| |13| |September| |81| |-| |18| |September| |96| |A.D.,| |Perinthos,| |Thrace||AE| |27|
Wandering the world in a panther-drawn chariot, Dionysus rode ahead of the maenads and satyrs, who sang loudly and danced, flushed with wine. They were profusely garlanded with ivy and held the thyrsus, a staff topped with a pine-cone, a symbol of the immortality of his believers. Everywhere he went he taught men how to cultivate vines, and the mysteries of his cult. Whoever stood in his way and refused to revere him was punished with madness.
RP34266. Bronze AE 27, RPC II 363, Moushmov 4426, BMC Thrace -, Lindgren -, aVF, weight 10.770 g, maximum diameter 27.1 mm, die axis 180o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, obverse AYTOK KAIΣAP ΔOMITIANOΣ ΣEB ΓEP, laureate head right; reverse ΠEPINΘION, Dionysos standing half left before burning altar, nude but for chlamys on shoulders and boots, pouring wine libation from kalathos in right hand, thyrsos tied with fillet vertical behind in left hand; rare; SOLD


Perinthus, Thrace, Early - Mid 2nd Century A.D.

|Perinthus|, |Perinthus,| |Thrace,| |Early| |-| |Mid| |2nd| |Century| |A.D.||AE| |27|
Artemis' most distinctive attributes were her bow, arrows, and quiver. She was also sometimes equipped with hunting spears, a lyre, a water-jug, and frequently a torch or a pair of torches. Artemis was sometimes called the torch-bearing goddess; this alluding to her role as a moon goddess, wandering and shining at night. At Amphipolis she was honored with torch-races called Lampadephoria.
RP87445. Bronze AE 27, Schönert-Geiss Perinthos 126 (same dies); RPC III 722; Varbanov III -; BMC Thrace -; SNG Cop -, gVF, attractive dark green patina, small edge chips, die break on veil, weight 7.850 g, maximum diameter 27.3 mm, die axis 0o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, early - mid 2nd century A.D.; obverse veiled and draped bust of Demeter right, holding grain and poppy in raised left hand; reverse ΠEPINΘIΩN, Artemis Tauropolos advancing right, holding torch in each hand; Agora auction 74 (5 Jun 2018), 59; ex Tom Buggey Collection; ex CNG e-auction 251 (9 Mar 2011), lot 218; SOLD


Kingdom of Thrace, Lysimachos, 305 - 281 B.C., In the Name and Types of Alexander the Great

|Kingdom| |of| |Thrace|, |Kingdom| |of| |Thrace,| |Lysimachos,| |305| |-| |281| |B.C.,| |In| |the| |Name| |and| |Types| |of| |Alexander| |the| |Great||obol|
Price 3871, now in the British Museum (BM: 2002,0101.953) has been reexamined and identified as poorly struck example of this type with a conjoined horse foreparts control symbol in the left field. Price incorrectly identified the symbol as an anchor, and thus the coin as a Seleukid issue from Susa. Price 3064 and 3065 are tetradrachms with this same conjoined horse foreparts symbol, which Price attributed to an uncertain mint of Southern Asia Minor. In 1855, on page 170 of Numismatique d'Alexandre le Grand, Ludvig Müller noted this symbol was used only at Perinthos and is found on various coin types, including Alexander type tetradrachms struck under Lysimachus. In her study on the mint of Perinthos, Schönert-Geiss confirms this was a civic badge of Perinthos. Errett Bishop's hand printed tag, referencing Müller, pre-dates the publication of Price in 1991 and correctly identifies the mint as Perinthos!
GS95979. Silver obol, Price 3871 corr. (see note), see Müller Alexander p. 170, aF/gF, rough, weight 0.653 g, maximum diameter 9.9 mm, die axis 45o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, c. 320 - 281 B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse Zeus enthroned left, nude to the waist, himation around hips and legs, eagle in extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, right leg drawn back, feet on footstool, AΛEΞANΔPOY downward on right, two horse foreparts conjoined (control symbol) in left field, P (control letter) under throne; struck by Lysimachos as strategos of Thrace c. 320 - 305 B.C., or as king, 305 - 281 B.C., from the Errett Bishop Collection, only four specimens of this type are known to Forum; extremely rare; SOLD


Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D., Perinthus, Thrace

|Perinthus|, |Trajan,| |25| |January| |98| |-| |8| |or| |9| |August| |117| |A.D.,| |Perinthus,| |Thrace||AE| |23|
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.
RB90419. Bronze AE 23, Schönert-Geiss Perinthos 340; RPC III 694; Varbanov III 69 (R3); BMC Thrace p. 149, 19, F, rough green patina, reverse double struck, light corrosion, cleaning marks, weight 7.809 g, maximum diameter 23.0 mm, die axis 225o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, 98 - 102 A.D.; obverse AY K NE TPAIANOIΣ ΣEBA Γ, radiate head right; reverse ΠEPIN-ΘIΩN, Tyche-Fortuna standing left, kalathos on head, holding rudder by tiller in right hand, cornucopia in left; SOLD


Sabina, Augusta 128 - c. 136 A.D., Perinthos, Thrace

|Perinthus|, |Sabina,| |Augusta| |128| |-| |c.| |136| |A.D.,| |Perinthos,| |Thrace||AE| |20|
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.
RP92876. Bronze AE 20, CN Online Perinthos CN_4717, Schonert Perinthos 380, Varbanov III 100 (R6), BMC Thrace -, SNG Cop -, gVF, nice portrait, uneven patina, a little off center, weight 4.140 g, maximum diameter 20.7 mm, die axis 180o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, 128 - c. 136 A.D.; obverse CABINA - CEBACTH, draped bust right; reverse Π-EPIN-ΘIWN, Demeter standing left, two stalks of grain in right hand, long torch vertical behind in left hand; SOLD


Elagabalus, 16 May 218 - 11 March 222 A.D., Perinthos, Thrace

|Perinthus|, |Elagabalus,| |16| |May| |218| |-| |11| |March| |222| |A.D.,| |Perinthos,| |Thrace||AE| |21|
RP08432. Bronze AE 21, SNG Cop 749cf, VF, weight 4.80 g, maximum diameter 21.2 mm, die axis 180o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, obverse AVT K M AVP ANTΩNEINO, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse ΠEPINΘIΩNEO KOPΩN, galley with four oarsmen rowing right, standard at bow, Δ above; rare; SOLD


Perinthos, Thrace, 1st Century A.D.

|Perinthus|, |Perinthos,| |Thrace,| |1st| |Century| |A.D.||AE| |24|
GB39306. Bronze AE 24, Schönert-Geiss Perinthos 88, RPC I 1766, aVF, weight 5.540 g, maximum diameter 23.5 mm, die axis 0o, Heraclea Perinthos (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, obverse bust of Neptune right, trident before; reverse ΠEPIN/ΘIΩN, dolphin right; rare; SOLD




  




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