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Size Weight<br />

ASIA. 41<br />

Gordianus III.<br />

AY. K. M Head <strong>of</strong> Gordian III. to r. R. [K]OAYBPACCeQN.<br />

Fortune to I.<br />

COMANA Ponti.<br />

Note.— V. <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 45.<br />

Julia Mamcea.<br />

lOYAIA MAMGA CGB. Head <strong>of</strong> Julia Mamsea to r. R. KOMANe^N. Bacchus<br />

standing to I. ; in right hand, cantharus I left hand resting on thyrsus ; at his<br />

feet, panther looking up ?<br />

COMMAGENE.<br />

Nute.—The <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong> the people <strong>of</strong> Commagene in genere were struck probably at Samosata, that<br />

city being styled on its <strong>coins</strong> the Metropolis <strong>of</strong> Commagene.<br />

KOMMArHNUN. Anchor. IJ. niSTIS. Two hands joined ; crossed by caduceus<br />

under them.<br />

CONANE Pisidiffi.<br />

Note.— V, <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 45.<br />

KAICAP ANXaNGINOC AY. Head <strong>of</strong> Antoninus Pius? to r. R. KONANeaN.<br />

Dioscuri standing adv. ;<br />

over their heads, stars ;<br />

hands joined ; the other hand <strong>of</strong> each resting on hasta ;<br />

between which, crescent.<br />

CORACESIUM Cilici^.<br />

Note.— Coracesium, now Alaya, the westernmost point <strong>of</strong> Cilicia Tracheia, is described by Strabo<br />

(p. 668), and by Sir F. Beaufort (p. 156). Thougli now a small town, it is, <strong>with</strong> the exception <strong>of</strong><br />

Ad^lia, the largest, and by position and natural strength the most important on the whole southern<br />

shore <strong>of</strong> Asia Minor eastward <strong>of</strong> Rhodes. Coracesium, from the time it was wrested from the kings<br />

<strong>of</strong> Syria by Diodotus (Tryphon) about B.C. 150, became the nucleus and uaval arsenal <strong>of</strong> that piratical<br />

power which continued until the reduction <strong>of</strong> Coracesium in B.C. 67 by Cn. Pompeius (Plutarch,<br />

Pomp. c. 28).<br />

AY. KAIC. AAPIAN . . Head <strong>of</strong> Hadrian to r. R. KOPAKHCItUTlDN. Female<br />

in long drapery to I. ; in right hand, ears <strong>of</strong> corn, held over altar ; in left hand,<br />

hasta.<br />

CORYCUS Ciliciae.<br />

Note.—V. <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 46,<br />

Philippus Senior.<br />

AYT. K. M. lOYAIOC *IAinnOC CGB. Head <strong>of</strong> Philip to r. R. KiiPYKiaTiiN<br />

AYTONOM. Female in long drapery to I. ; on her head, shell <strong>of</strong> crab ; in right<br />

hand ? in left hand, rudder and acrostolium.<br />

Same legend and type. R. KiiPYKIiiTiiN AYTONOlvm. Female figure to I.,<br />

crowned and clothed as before ; in right hand, acrostolium ; left hand resting on<br />

hasta.<br />

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