OBVERSE TYPES

OF

ROMAN PROVINCIAL AUTONOMOUS COINS

Thrace, Byzantium Pseudo-autonomous with Hercules.

The purpose of this page is to create a comprehensive list of Roman autonomous obverse types. 

Deities and Local Personifications:

Abydus
Achilles
Africa - Mauretania, Caesarea
Agreus - Corcyra
Akamas
Alexander the Great as Herakles
Amazon Smyrna
Anchilalos
Ankaeos - Samos
Aphrodite
Apollo
Apollo and Artemis
Ares
Artemis
Asclepius
Atergatis seated on lion - Palmyra
Athena
Attis - Galatia
Augustus
Bias
Boule
Byzas
Chersonas
Corcyra
Cybele Sipylene
Demeter
Demos
Doros

Dionysos
Dioscuri - Tripolis
Dokimos
Eirene
Germe
Gerousia
Hekate
Helios
Hephaistos - Lemnos, Hephaestia
Hera
Herakles/Heracles/Hercules
Hermes
Hygieia
Iasos - Iasus
Ino - the daughter of Kadmos and Harmonia
Isis
Julius Caesar
King Minos

King Midas
Kore Soteira
Kronos - Irenopolis
Kyzikos
Lesbos
Libya - Cyrene
Libera behind hd. of Astarte - Hippo Diarrhytus
Ma or Enyo - Comana
Marsyas - Berytus
Medusa - Iconium, Lycaonia
Meles river-god
Melicertes
Melqarth - Tyre
Men 
Menestheus
Mercury - Apameia
Messene - Messene, 2nd - 3rd Cent.
Myrina

Neptune - Corinth, 1st - 2nd Cent.
Nike
Pan head of 
Pan standing
Pergamos - Pergamon
Parios - Parium
Pegasus - Corinth, Time of Augustus
Perseus
Persephone - Priene
Poseidon
Roma
Roma and Senate - Clazomenae
Sarapis
Sarapis and Isis
Saturn
Selene-Hekate
Senate
Serapis
Sibyl of Cyme 
Silenus
Sipylos 
Solymos
Sozon
Sphinx
Teios 
Telesphoros
Theseus - Attica, Athens
Thynnaros
Tmolos mountain-god
Tomos
Triopas?
Tyche
Venus - Corinth, Time of Hadrian
Zeus

Animals:

boar
boar's head
bull
crab
eagle
foal
goat
grapes
griffin
horse
owl - Lystra
peacock
Ram - Cyrene
she-wolf - illium
stag

Poets and Philosophers:

Homer
Anacreon
Chrysippos
Cicero the Younger
Eukleides
Theophanes

Proconsuls,Magistrates,Governors,Citizens:

Ajax, High-Preist - Olba
Atratinus - Lacedaemon
Annius Afrinus - Lycaonia
Asinius Gallus - Temnus
Eypoleita - Cnidus
M. Antonius Polemo, High-Preist - Olba
Mytilene, Lesbos:
   Flavia Nicomachis
   Lesbonax
   Julia Prokla
   Lesbonax
   Nausikaa
   Sextos
   Deinomachos
   Theophanes
Pompey the Great
Pythes - Loadicia ad Lycum

Objects:

bucranium
Cilicarch cown

corn and poppies
cuirass - Conana
distyle temple
double cornucopia
galley
mask of Silenos - Hyreanis
panther - Cyzicus
plough
pomegranate
quiver - Patrae, 1st Cent.
rudder
shield
trophy
throne of Zeus - olba
vase, one handled
Bacchic mask - Smyrna
vexillum