Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

Metal
M
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Size
2i
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8J-6i
7i
7*
4
JE 4i
Weight
214-4
ASIATIC GREECE. 15
Same legend. Head of Apollo to I. R. eTOYC. OP. (year 170, or a.d. 121).
B. Seven-stringed lyre, made of tortoise.
ANTIOXEilN THC MHTPOHOA Head of Antiocheia to r. R. GT. ZOP.
A decorated altar.
(year 177, a.d. 128).
Marcus Antonius.
Head of M. Antonius to r. R. ANTIOXEON MHTPOnoAEQS. Head of Antiocheia
to r. Electrotype.
Augustus.
Head of Jupiter to r. R. ANTIOXEilN EDI OAPOY tcK (year 26). Veiled and
turreted female (Antiocheia), seated on rock, to r. ; in right hand, palm-branch ;
below, river-god (Orontes) swimming to r.
Another similar.
Another similar, but EHI OYAPOY, and date ZK (year 27).
Another similar.
Note.— P. Quinctilius Varus is best known by his command of the German legions, ending in his
defeat by Arminius, and death in a.d. 10. As legate In Syria, he had succeeded Satuminus, whose
name also is found on coins of Antioch. Velleius says of "
Varus, ingenio mitis, moribus quietus,
pecunise vero quam non contemptor, Syria cui prsefuerat deelaravit, quam pauper divitem ingressus,
dives pauperem reliquit" (ii. ll?)- The dates are of the Actiac eera, and correspond to a.d. 5 and 6.
APXIEPEI KAISAPI SEBASTil. Head of Augustus to r. R. APXIEPATIKON
ANTIOXEIS ZK. (year 27, of the Actiac sera, b.c. 4). The whole in four
lines within a crown (ffrt'^ai'oc), i. e. the Antiochenses dedicate an archieratic
crown to Caesar Augustus as high-priest.
Two others similar.
Another similar, but date HK (year 28, b.c. 3).
KAISAPOS SEBASTOY. Head of Augustus to r. R. ANTIOXEilN MHTP
Antiocheia, seated on a rock, to r. ; in right hand, palm-branch ; at her feet,
Orontes swimming to r. ; in field, KA (year 36) ; AN (year 54) ; mon. 19.
Note.—Here it is evident, from the interval of eighteen years, that the former «ra is that of Actium,
the latter of Pharsalia, and that the date of the coin is the year 5 of the Christian sei-a. Before the
death of Tiberius, the Csesarian sera had again become the only one employed on the money of Antioch,
as appears from a coin of Tiberius struck at Antioch under Flaccus (EIII *AAKKOy) in the
year 82 (Eckhel iii. p. 279), which could not have been of the Actiac sera, as Flaccus died governor
of Syria in a.d. 33 (Tacit. Ann. vi. 27), corresponding to 51 of the Actiac sera.
IMP» AVGVST. TR. POT* Same type. R. S.C. in a wreath.
Another similar.
Legend effaced. Same type. R. Same letters and type.
Tiberius.
Head of Jupiter to r. R. ANTIOXEiiN EHI SIAANOY PM. (year 43). Ram
running to r,, and looking to I. at star.
Another similar.
Same type. R. ANTIOXEiiN EHI 2IAAN0Y AM. (year 44). Same type.
Another similar.
[SE]BASTOS SEBAS[TOY]. Head of Tiberius to r. R. A. EHI SIAANOY AN-
TIOXEiiN eM. (year 45), in six lines, within a wreath.
Nate.— Csecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus was consul in a.d. 7, and four years afterwards was sent
by Augustus to govern Syria. In the year 17 he was removed by Tiberius. The three dates are of
the Actiac sera, and correspond to a.d. 12, 13, and 14.
Claudius.
Legend effaced. Head of Claudius to I. R. TI. KAAYAIOY K nniNEI (retrograde).
Head of Agrippina to r.