Description

Tyana, Cappadocia Antoninus Pius 138-161 AD, AE 22.9mm 8.14GM

Regnal Year 19 ЄΤ-ΘΙ on the reverse, Struck 156/157 AD.

Obverse: ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ laureate head of Antoninus Pius facing right. Translates: Autokrator Antoninos Sebastos

Reverse: ΤΥΑΝΕΩΝ Τ Π Τ ΙΕΡ ΑΣΥ ΑΥΤ Tyche the goddess of fortune and city protector) turreted and seated left on a rock. She holds grain ears and a bunch of grapes, resting her feet on a river god swimming below her. Translate: Of the Tyaneans near [Mount] Taurus, sacred, autonomous, and asylum-granting

Reference: SNG Copenhagen 317

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