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Metal Size Weight<br />

M<br />

JE<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

JE<br />

JE<br />

JE<br />

JE<br />

H.<br />

8<br />

8<br />

81<br />

84<br />

10<br />

ASIATIC GREECE,<br />

ALINDA CarijE.<br />

Beardless head <strong>of</strong> Hercules, covered <strong>with</strong> a lion's<br />

scalp, to r.<br />

indistinct.) Thyrsus and club.<br />

AMASIA Ponti.<br />

B Ar IN.— (letters<br />

i\rc-te.— Amasia, a strong position in the valley <strong>of</strong> the Iris, preserves its ancient Atnaeonian name,<br />

and a few remains <strong>of</strong> walls and subterraneous works, sufficient to prove its ancient importance.<br />

It was the native place <strong>of</strong> Strabo, who has left<br />

Hamilton's Asia i. Minor, p. 366.<br />

us a description <strong>of</strong> it. For its present state, see<br />

AYT. AOMITIANO. KAICAP. CC<br />

exOYC. eg. (year 95, a.d. 88,<br />

bust to I.<br />

Domitiamis.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Domitian to r.<br />

seventh year <strong>of</strong> Domitian).<br />

R. AMACCeiA.<br />

Turreted female<br />

Note.—The Amasian sera commenced in the year 7 B.C., when Augustus reduced Bithynia, Paphla-<br />

gonia, and a pai-t <strong>of</strong> Pontus into a single province. (Eckhel, ii. p. 346.)<br />

Antoninus Pirn.<br />

AN'mNINOC. Head <strong>of</strong> Antoninus to r. B. AMACIAC THC MHTPOnO-<br />

AeiiC e. PNe (year 155, a.d. 148). A funeral pile.<br />

Sept. Severus.<br />

cen. ceOYHPOC. Bust <strong>of</strong><br />

Sept. Severus to r. B. AAP. 06. ANT.<br />

(AMACIAC ) CT. CH. (year 208, a.d. 201). Funeral pile <strong>of</strong> two tiers<br />

burning ; to ^. a tree.<br />

A. cen. ceOYPOC neP . . . Bust <strong>of</strong> Sept. Severus to r. B. AAP. CCY.<br />

ANT. AMACI. MH. NE. HP. CT. CH. ['A^a'^^C Sfu'/pVC 'Ai^ro>'£(V>,c 'A/uairiat<br />

Mj/rpoTToXtwc Ntw/fopou Ilpwrjjc. "Eroc CH (year 208)]. Fortune, <strong>with</strong> modius,<br />

standing to I. ; in right hand, rudder ; in left hand, cornucopise.<br />

Caracalla.<br />

AY. ANTaNINOC Bust <strong>of</strong> Caracalla to r. B. (AAP. CCY). ANT.<br />

Fortune, as before, to I.<br />

AMACIAC .... CT. CH. (year 208).<br />

AYP Same type. B. AAP. CCY. . . . AMACIAC<br />

MH. NC. CT.<br />

C©. (year 209). Same type.<br />

KAI. M. AY. AN(TONINOC). Same type. B. AAP. CCY MH. NC.<br />

DP. n. CT. 00. (year 209). A star. Same type.<br />

Geta.<br />

n.CenTI. TCTAC KCCA . . Bust <strong>of</strong> Geta to r. B. AAP. CCOY. AN. AMACIAC<br />

MH Funeral on which is a<br />

pile, spread eagle, and above it the quadriga<br />

<strong>of</strong> the sun, adv. ; close to the left side <strong>of</strong> the pile, a tree.<br />

no. CCHTIMI. r Same type. B. AAP. CCYI. ANT CT.<br />

CH. (year 208). Victory to I. ; in right hand, crown ; in left hand, palmbranch.<br />

Severus Alexandrus.<br />

. K. M. AYP. ceOYHPOC AACIANAPOC. Head <strong>of</strong> Severus Alexander to r.<br />

B. AAP. CCY. AA. S- (AMACIAC) MH. NC. HP. HO. CT. CKH. (year 228, first<br />

year <strong>of</strong> the reign <strong>of</strong> Severus). Funeral pile, <strong>with</strong> the eagle, quadriga <strong>of</strong> the sun,<br />

adv., and tree as before.<br />

iVbfe.—The abbreviations MH, HE, IIP, in the above legends are siglas ; that is to say, the two<br />

letters are united as a monogram. This form became common about the time <strong>of</strong> the striking <strong>of</strong> these<br />

<strong>coins</strong>, and will seldom require to be noticed.

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