Know Your Ruler: Roman Provincial Quiz 2

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1. Who is this?

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MOESIA SUPERIOR, Viminacium. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 28mm (11.98 g). Dated CY 16 (AD 254/255). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Moesia standing facing, head left, extending hands to bull and lion standing at feet on either side; AN XVI in exergue. Boric-Brescovic 1693; AMNG I 194; SNG Hungary 633; Jekov and Hristova 101. VF, green patina, some smoothing on reverse, attractive portrait.

 



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Know Your Ruler: Roman Provincial Quiz 2 - Quiz

Being able to identify coins by their portraits is a handy skill. For Roman Imperial coins, that skill is not terribly difficult until around the tetrarchal period and beyond when the portraits become increasingly generic.
Roman Provincial portraiture though. . . It's a different beast.
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All coin images used in the quiz are courtesy of Classical Numismatic Group. Cover coin is from the TIF collection; Commodus / Three Graces, Marcianopolis. see less

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2. Who is this?

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PISIDIA, Apollonia-Mordiaeum. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Medallion (40mm, 36.64 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Emperor, holding scepter, within hexastyle temple with pellet in pediment. Von Aulock, Pisidiens 157-83; SNG France 1365-6; SNG Copenhagen 99; SNG von Aulock 4999; BMC 5-6 (all from the same obv. die). Good VF, green patina, smoothing. Impressive.
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3. Who is this?

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MYSIA, Cyzicus. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (24mm, 7.94 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΚYZIK[H]-NΩN, NЄOKOPΩ, galley to left. SNG BN –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –. Good VF, green-brown patina. Possibly unpublished with galley reverse.
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4. Who is this?

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CILICIA, Laertes. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 11 Assaria (27mm, 13.82 g, 1h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right; IA (mark of value) before / Ares standing facing, head right, holding spear and shied set on ground. SNG France -; SNG Levante 382 (same dies). VF, light green patina.
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5. Who is this?

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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 13.60 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Melqart-Herakles standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar and holding club; two baetyls (the Ambrosial Rocks) to upper left, murex shell to lower right. Rouvier 2524; AUB –; BMC –. Good Fine, brown patina.
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6. Who is this?

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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 15.28 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Bust of Astarte right within tetrastyle shrine; murex shell below. Rouvier 2522; BMC 478; AUB –. VF, green surfaces, adjustment marks.
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7. Who is this?

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PISIDIA, Apollonia-Mordiaeum. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 33mm (20.71 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / River-god Hippophoras reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia, left elbow resting on overturned urn. SNG France 1366 (same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 5000 (same obv. die). Good VF, green and brown patina, some roughness
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8. Who is this?

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SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Heliopolis. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 28mm (18.30 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Nude athlete standing facing, holding palm and placing wreath on head. SNG München -; SNG Copenhagen 442; BMC -. VF, green patina with some earthen deposits.
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9. Who is this?

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SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 10.59 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Agonistic urn with palm branches set on three-legged table. De Saulcy 7; Rosenberger 62. Near VF, dark brown patina. Scarce.
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10. Who is this?

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TROAS, Alexandria Troas. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (22mm, 5.06 g, 12h). Struck AD 253-260. IMP LICIN GALLIENV, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CO L AVG TRO, eagle, with wings displayed, standing right on forepart of a bull. Bellinger A455; SNG Tübingen –; SNG München –; SNG von Aulock 7577 (same dies); BMC 178. Near EF, attractive green and red-brown patina, reverse field gently smoothed.
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