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Ancient Coinage of Caria, Aphrodisias

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CITY AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS COINAGE
BMC 75Aphrodisias, Caria, Pseudo-autonomous AE, ca. 238 - 249. 8.21 g. IERA SUNKLHTOS. Diademed and draped bust of the Senate right / AFRODEISIEWN, Prize crown inscribed GORDI ANHA, with palm branch on table with lions' feet, ATTALHA in three lines between two purses below. BMC 75.TextImage
MacDonald R145Aphrodisias, Caria. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Early 3rd Century AD. AE 25mm (8.57 g, 6h). IEPOC DHMOC, unbearded, youthful, laureate and draped bust of Demos right / AFRODEI-CIEWN, cult statue of Aphrodite right, veiled and wearing kalathos; behind her a small veiled figure of a priestess seated right and in front, an altar or fountain. MacDonald Type 145. BMC 33 var (bust type); SNG von Aulock 2443 var (ditto); SNG Cop. 107 var (ditto) (BMC, von Aulock and SNG Cop list laureate bust only.)TextImage
MacDonald R340Aphrodisias AE24. IEPA CYNKLHTOC, draped bust of Senate right / AFPOD-EICIEWN, leafless tree with three branches springing separately from a trellis enclosure, a lighted altar to left and right. BMC 58. TextImage
Mionnet 594 (rev)Aphrodisias, Caria, AE27, Time of Philip I, 244-249 AD. DHMOC, unbearded, laureate head right / AFRODEICIEWN, Panther right, killing stag. Probably unpublished. This reverse: Mionnet, Vol. IV, page 108, no. 594. Rohde 11773. See also another unpublished coin with the same reverse from Philadelpheia, Lydia.TextImage
HADRIAN
MacDonald 55Hadrian AE28 Diassarion of Caria, Aphrodisias. AV K LI TPAIN ADPIANOC CE, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from front, slight drapery on left shoulder / AFRODEICIEWN, cult state of Artemis of Aphrodisias standing facing within tetrastyle shrine with arched central bay; ornate roofline.TextImage
GORDIAN III
SNG von Aulock 2463Gordian III AE 36mm of Caria, Aphrodisias. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right [c/m: D] / Prize urn on table; amphora below. SNG von Aulock 2463-4 [c/m: Howgego 788].TextImage
BMC 126Gordian III Æ 3 Assaria of Aphrodisias in Caria. AVK MAN GOPDIANOC CE, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right / AFR-O-D-EI, CIEWN, cult-statue of Aphrodite right on plinth between small figure of priestess(?) & low altar with conical cover(?); on either side, cippus surmounted by Eros, poised on one leg, holding torch toward cult statue.TextImage
VALERIAN_I
SNGvA 8066Valerian I, AE of Aphrodisias, Caria. 253-260 AD, Archontus Julianus. 15.56 g. AU KAI POLI OUALERIANOC, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right / EPI ARC OIOVALIANOU, two prize crowns, inscribed GORDIANHA and OUALERIANA, each with palm branch on agonistic table with lion's legs, palm branches beneath table. AF-RO DE-CI, EWN below and in exergue. SNG v. Aulock 8066; Macdonald 212.TextImage
SALONINA
BMC 152Salonina AE23 of Aphrodesias, Caria. IOV KOPN CALWNIN, diademed & draped bust right, crescent behind shoulders / AFRODICIE, cult statue of Kore standing right.TextImage
See also: Entry for Aphrodisias on the Digital Historia Numorum
Search for Aphrodisias in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Search for Aphrodisias in the ANS Database
Search for Aphrodisias at AncientImports.com
Search for Aphrodisias at Incitatus Coins

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