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

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Metal<br />

M M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

size<br />

2-<br />

3i<br />

6i<br />

4i<br />

3<br />

H<br />

Si<br />

3<br />

^<br />

4-<br />

Weight<br />

1897<br />

Same type.<br />

B. AAM^AKH in a wreath.<br />

Same type. flL. AAM'I'A in a wreath.<br />

ASIATIC GREECE. 73<br />

Augustus.<br />

ceBACTOC. Head <strong>of</strong> Augustus to r. R. AAM*AK. Priapus standing to I. ;<br />

right hand raised.<br />

Julia Domna.<br />

lOY. AOMNA. C6BACTH.<br />

horse to r.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Julia Domna to r. R.<br />

LAODIOEIA Phrygise, sive ad Lyeum.<br />

. . . ^AKHNQN. Sea-<br />

Note— According to Stephanas, Laodiceia ad Lycum was not one <strong>of</strong> the cities founded or restored<br />

by Seleucus I., and named in honour <strong>of</strong> liis mother Laodiee, but by Antiochus II. in honour <strong>of</strong> his<br />

sister and wife, and that he was moved to favour the city by Jupiter Laodicenus, whose figure is re-<br />

presented on its <strong>coins</strong>. From a coin <strong>of</strong> Caracalla, on the reverse <strong>of</strong> which Laodiceia, represented as<br />

a turreted female, is seated between two standing females, inscribed *PYriA, KAPIA, it would<br />

appear that the boundary line <strong>of</strong> Caria and Phrygia passed through the city. Its extensive ruins<br />

have been described by Cliandler, and in the Ionian Anticjuities <strong>of</strong> the Society <strong>of</strong> Dilettanti.<br />

Serpent escaping from half-opened cista to I. ; all in a wreath <strong>of</strong> ivy. B. AAO.<br />

AIOAflPOY B. Two serpents on either side <strong>of</strong> a decorated bow-case ; their tails<br />

entwined ; in field to r., caduceus.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Jupiter Sarapis to /". R. AAOAIKGilN. Cornueopise.<br />

Same type. R. Same legend. Eagle, <strong>with</strong> open wings, adv., looking to r.<br />

AAOAIKHA. Turreted female head to r. R. lOYAIA ZHNiiNIS. Female in long<br />

drapery standing to r. ; in right hand, hasta ; in left hand, apple.<br />

[K]AA[YAIA ZHNii]NIS. Bust <strong>of</strong> Pallas to r. B. AAOAIKGiiN. Cornueopise.<br />

AAOAIKGilN. Head <strong>of</strong> Lunus to r., <strong>with</strong> Phrygian cap. B. KPOAINH A2I.<br />

Eagle on fulmen, <strong>with</strong> open wings, adv., looking to I.— Conf. Mionnet, Sup. vii.<br />

p. 580, No. 421.<br />

AAOAIKGllN. Wolf standing to r. B. GTK. in mon. (year 325 ?) Boar standing<br />

to I.<br />

Note.—The two beasts on this coin allude to'the rivers Avkoj (Wolf) and Kda-p<strong>of</strong> (Boar), which<br />

united their waters near Laodiceia.<br />

SEBA2[T0S]. Head <strong>of</strong> Augustus tor.; behind it, a countermark. B. nY®H2 HYGOY<br />

AAOAIKEtiN. Jupiter Laodicenus standing to /. ; in extended right hand,<br />

eagle ; in left hand, hasta ; all between the two bonnets <strong>of</strong> the Dioscuri.<br />

Same legend and type. B. nY©H2 nYQOY TO AEYTEP[ON] AAOAIKEiiN. Same<br />

types, but in field to I. the bonnets <strong>of</strong> the Dioscuri.<br />

Same legend and type. B- ZEYSIS AAOAIKEiiN. Jupiter Laodicenus to l; m<br />

field to ?., mon. 55.<br />

Caius CcBsar.<br />

TAIOS KAI2AP. Head <strong>of</strong> Caius Caesar to r. B. AAOAIKEiiN. Small eagle, adv..<br />

looking up, between mon. 56 (noMju^v) and mon. 57 (AHO<br />

.).<br />

Claudius.<br />

KAAY[AIOS] KAISAP. Head <strong>of</strong> Claudius to r. B. nOAEMQNOG YIOY ZHNiiNOC<br />

AAOAIKEiiN. Jupiter Laodicenus, as before ; in field to r., mon. 58.<br />

Note. ^Zeno <strong>of</strong> Laodiceia was a celebrated rhetorician in the time <strong>of</strong> the Triumviri. His son<br />

Polemo was the same person whom M. Antonius made king <strong>of</strong> Cilicia, and afterwards <strong>of</strong> Pontus.

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