* See BMC 17 Troas at xviii, citing Cavedoni ( Spicil., p. RPC IX 505 (see ) Bellinger A486 BMC 17 Troas, 46 var. Horse (of Erichthonius?)* grazing to right, COL AVG, TROAD in exergue. Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, vexillum inscribed CO AV over right shoulder, CO ALEX TR / Rev. I'm particularly fond of the reddish color.Īnonymous colonial civic issue, AE 23, 251 - 260 AD (Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I), Troas, Alexandria Troas Mint. Not counting Roman Egypt, my latest Provincial is also from Alexandria Troas - using Latin rather than Greek because of its status as a colony. If you have "provincial" coinage from the late 250s up to 270 and would like to share it, please do. Talloen - The Tychaion of Sagalassos: The Cultural Biography of an Emblematic Monument, pp. In this respect, the Tychaion is a known and celebrated monument, inscribed in the more ample tradition of similar local monuments in the East, but also specific enough to Sagalassos to be individualized as a civic and religious symbol by the local elite. This particular issue, showing the 'Tychaion of Sagalassos' corresponds to a tradition in local Greek coinage of showing particular local symbols that adhered to a certain civic identity. The striking of the countermark also flattened ca. The revalue might be related to the campaign of Aurelian against Palmyra an/or these coins might have circulated with the new 'aureliani' until ca. Even more, the presence of three types of countermarks on these coins shows perhaps that at a certain point, perhaps even post-270, the coins were re-tariffed, likely to show their relation to the imperial coinage. BMC 55 Howgego 449 for countermarkĪ late product of the local mint at Sagalassos, the coinage for Claudius II was extensive and likely covered the whole reign of the emperor. field rosette-sun countermark on reverse beneath the Tyche flattened reverse area.Ĭf. M♺VP - KΛAVΔION laureate, draped, cuirassed bust seen from rearĬA-ΓA-ΛACCEΩN, Tetrastyle temple with Tyche standing within, holding rudder on globe and cornucopiae, two figures (Dioscuri?) and crescent on globe on pediment - wheat in r.And most of its coinage during this period is the high denomination of 10 assaria (dekassaria):ĪE33mm 13.75g brass dekassaria, minted at Sagalassos ca. One of these provincial mints, which struck a high volume of coinage throughout the reign of Claudius II is Sagalassos - a wealthy agricultural and commercial hub in Pisidia. In some cases, the mints that produced local coinage were repurposed for Imperial issues - Antioch or Cyzicus being the prime examples for our period, but most of the mints just closed during this period, from the reign of Valerian and Gallienus, the rule of Odenathus in Antioch, the Germanic wars of Claudius and the Imperial coinage reform of Aurelian. I would like for this thread to be a fitting counterpart to my thread about the Eastern Imperial coinage of Gallienus and Claudius II (with an extension to Aurelian perhaps), a period that I think is crucial in the shift from local "provincial" coinage in Asia to the Imperial coinage.
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