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Metal<br />

M<br />

M M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

Size<br />

5i<br />

2+<br />

7+<br />

H<br />

4+<br />

Weight<br />

in grains<br />

Troy.<br />

42-6<br />

260-5<br />

ASIA.<br />

ABILA Coelosyriae.<br />

L. Verus.<br />

AYT . KAICaP a . AYP . OYH .... Head <strong>of</strong> Lucius Verus to r. ; countermark,<br />

head to r. B. Hercules, naked, seated on rock to I. ; right hand resting on<br />

club; left hand on rock; around, CG. ABIAUNaN 1. A. A. r, KOI. SYP. (St-<br />

fiaarSiv 'A/viXryi'wv Up'a aavKoQ aiirov<strong>of</strong>ioe P. Kot'\t;c Suptac.<br />

Note.—A comparison <strong>of</strong> the <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong> this place <strong>with</strong> those <strong>of</strong> Leucas Syrise (V. Eekhel, Mionnet,<br />

<strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 76) leaves no doubt that Abile Coelosyriae was not the same place as<br />

Leucas, the capital <strong>of</strong> the Abilene <strong>of</strong> Lysanias, which was situated in a pass <strong>of</strong> the Antilibanus in<br />

the way from Heliopolis (Baalbek) to Damascus. Nevertheless Eekhel has shown by means <strong>of</strong> a<br />

Pompeian date on a coin inscribed A6TK. ABIAA, that Abila Coelosyriae was surnamed Leucas.<br />

This city is ascribed by Eekhel and Mionnet to the Decapolis. But the names <strong>of</strong> the ten cities which<br />

formed this district are not the same in different authorities, and varied probably at different periods<br />

<strong>of</strong> time. From a Palmyrenian inscription, however, we learn that there certainly was an Abile <strong>of</strong><br />

Decapolis (Muratori, p. 115), and from Jusephus (Antiq. 407— 511) it appears to have stood near<br />

the left bank <strong>of</strong> the Jordan. Its exact position remains to be determined.<br />

ABYDUS Troadis.<br />

Note.—V. <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 142.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Gorgo adv. R. Anchor ; in field to r., A ; to ^. 2<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Diana to r. ; bow case behind the neck. R. ABYAHNQN. Eagle stepping<br />

to r. ; in field to r., staff and serpent <strong>of</strong> Asclepius ; below, APlANePOY ; all in<br />

wreath.— Electrotype from the Pembroke Collection.<br />

Same type. B. Eagle to r,, one wing expanded; in field to r., winged fulmen;<br />

above which, star. To the left, in a curved line, ABYAHNiiN ; below, ONHSIA-<br />

NAKT02 ;<br />

all in wreath.— Electrotype.<br />

AOMONIA Phrygiae.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Jupiter to r. B- AKMONeON GEOAOTOS EHIKAEOYS in three lines;<br />

between the first and second, Asclepius adv.<br />

Nero.<br />

AYTOKPATQP NEPQN KAAY, TEPMANIKOS SEBASTOS. Head <strong>of</strong> young Nero to<br />

r. B C6P0YHNI0Y KAniTQNOC KAI IOY[AIAC CEOYHPAU] ; be-<br />

low, AKMONeilN. Jupiter seated to l.\ in right hand, patera; under it, owl;<br />

in field above, crescent.<br />

NEPIUNA Ce BAG TON AKMONEIC . . . Head <strong>of</strong> Nero, at a more advanced age,<br />

to r. B. en. APX. CePOYHNIOY KAniXONOC KAI IOYAIAC CeOYHPAC.<br />

Jupiter seated to I. ; in right hand, patera ; under the throne, owl.<br />

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