Conveners
S46. ROME 12. ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINAGE 3
- Marguerite Spoerri Butcher (Heberden Coin Room, Oxford / Ashmolean Museum)
I will address the question of whether and to what extent the depiction of Apollo Didymeus could refer to the emperor and his family. This will be discussed on the basis of two examples:
An imperial cult of Caligula was established in Miletus during his reign. We find a coin type with the bust of Apollo on the reverse dating from this period. I will stress the idea of understanding this as...
The identity of the warrior god portrayed on the reverses of Roman provincial coins of Ariassos in Pisidia is open to debate. He could be the god Ares or the warrior-hero Solymos since the iconography of their depictions on coins is similar. Ancient sources confirm the existence of both cults in Pisidia. Some archaeological evidence also suggests that there is a temple of the deity in...
The collection of the Winterthur Coin Cabinet (Münzkabinett Winterthur) includes a bronze coin of King Philopator (II.?) of Cilicia. The dated coin shows a known type of this king, but uses an era different from the one used on other coins of the same type. This raises questions about the use of different eras in the coinage of one realm, city, or even the same ruler. The paper thus tries to...
Under Gordian III, Soli-Pompeiopolis in Cilicia made coins inscribed with ΑϚ, interpreted as coins of 6 assaria. However, the earlier coins for Alexander and Maximinus are sometimes inscribed ΒϚ, whose interpretation has long remained a puzzle. The same letters ΑϚ and ΒϚ also occur on some fairly small coins of Sidon during the first century AD.
Clearly ΑϚ and ΒϚ cannot then be value marks....
