Herakleia Salbace was located on the Phrygia-Carian border on Mt. Babadag's southern foothills which overlook the Tavas Plain. Its neighbours were Aphrodisias to the west and Apollonia and Tabae to the south.
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| BMC 5 | Heraclaea Salbace, Caria, AE22, 5.39 gr. Ca. 3rd century AD. IEΡA BOYΛH, Laureate, veiled and draped bust of Boule right / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Aesclepius seated left, holding patera over (or pointing to) a serpent coiled around an omphalos and holding a crooked staff by his side. BMC p. 116, 5-6. | Text | Image |
| Imhoof KM 9 | Herakleia Salbace, Caria. AE30, semi-autonomous issue, AD 161-169. IEΡA CYNKΛHTOC, bare-headed, draped bust of the Senate left. / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Marcus Aurelius, togate, standing right, holding a scroll, clasping the hand of Lucius Verus, togate, standing left, holding a scroll. Imhoof KM 9. | Text | Image |
| Lindgren 429 | AE30 of Heraklea Salbace, Caria. 10.36 gr. Imperial Times. ΔHMOC, Laureate draped bust of Demos left / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Serapis seated left holding long sceptre, Cerberus at feet. Lindgren III 429. | Text | Image |
| Rohde 11836 | Herakleia Salbace, Caria, AE29 (28.8 mm), 13 gr. Imperial Times. ΔHMOC, unbearded, laureate, draped bust of Demos left / HΡAKΛ-EΩTΩN, Demeter holding corn-ears and cornucopiae, Sozon, holding bipennis (double axe) and Artemis standing facing. cf. SNG von Aulock 2552 (for Julia Domna). Not in usual catalogs. Possibly unpublished. Rohde 11836. | Text | Image |
| RPC 2856 | Tiberius AE20 of Heraclaea Salbace, Caria. AD 14-37. ΣEBAΣTOΣ, Bare head right / AΠOΛΛΩNIOΣ AΠOΛΛΩNIOY HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Herakles walking left, extending arm and holding club. RPC 2856. | Text | Image |
| RPC 1239 | Domitia. AE21 of Heraclea Salbace, Caria, 82-96 AD. CEBACTH, draped bust right / HΡAKΛHΩTΩN, Dionysos standing left, holding kantharos and thyrsos. RPC 1239; Imhoof Kleinasiatische Münzen, P. 133, 6. | Text | Image |
| BMC 24 | Trajan, AE21 of Herakleia Salbake, Caria. AD 98-117. 3.43 g. TΡAIANOC KAICAΡ, laureate head right. / HΡAKΛEΩTAN, Herakles walking left, holding lionskin and club, right hand extended. BMC 24; RPC III 2269; Paris 713-716; Waddington 2419; SNG Cop 403. | Text | Image |
| Imhoof KM9 | Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus. AE30 of Heraclaea Salbace, Caria. 161-169 AD. 15.50 g. IEΡAC CVNKΛHTOC, Draped bust of youthful Senate left / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, both togate, standing facing one another, clasping right hands. Imhoof-Blumer, KM 9; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Cop -. | Text | Image |
| Schulten 1987, 558 | Marcus Aurelius, AE38 of Herakleia (Salbace), Caria. AD 161-169. 25.34 g. AY KAI ANTΩNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Herakles standing slightly left, looking left, holding club in left arm, right hand outstretched. Schulten 1987, lot 558; RPC online 8172; Kairos auction 2018. | Text | Image |
| BMC 29 | Julia Domna, AE27 of Heraclea Salbace, Caria. 193-217 AD. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CEBACT, Draped bust right / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Tetrastyle temple containing cult statue of Aphrodite facing; garlanded altar in exergue. BMC Caria 29. | Text | Image |
| wwxls 43115 | Julia Domna, AE23 of Herakleia-Salbace, Caria. AD 193-211, 7.73 g. IOYΛ ΔOMNA CEB C, draped bust right. / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Hygieia, polos on head, standing left by altar, holding patera, feeding a serpent with its body across her chest and its tail on the far right. Unpublished, (same reverse as BMC 10 with head of Demos on the obverse). wwxls 43115; NAC 100-2, 1254. | Text | Image |
| SNG Righetti 967 | Macrinus and Diadumenian, AE38 medallion of Herakleia Salbace, Caria. AD 217-218. MAΡ OΠ CEBH MAKΡEINOC M OΠ ANTΩNEINOC (or beginning MAΡ OΠE), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Macrinus right, facing bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Diadumenian left. / HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, Macrinus standing left, holding patera and spear, crowned by Tyche, turreted, standing behind him. SNG Righetti 967; Kapossy GM 96; Imhoof KM 10; Vierordt 1968 (this coin). | Text | Image |
