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bgr_251498 - CILICIA - ELAIUSSA Unité

CILICIA - ELAIUSSA Unité XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 55.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 90-63 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cilicie, Elaiussa
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 7,51 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Zeus. Frappe faible au revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
BMC.5680  - SNG France 2/1151  - Levante831

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Zeus à droite, coiffé de la Tainia.
Obverse legend : AR.

Reverse

Reverse description : Niké (la Victoire) marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, deux monogrammes.
Reverse legend : ELA-IOUSIWN/ TAR/ QE.
Reverse translation : (d’Elaiusion.

Commentary

Au revers, nous semblons bien lire TAI ou TAP plutôt que TA.

Historical background

CILICIA - ELAIUSSA

(1st century BC)

Elaeusa or Elaiussa was in antiquity a small island, not far from the Cilician coast since it is now joined to the mainland, not very far from Corycus (HN. p.734). The city changed its name to become Sebaste, today Ayash. Between 18/7 BC. AD and 5/6 AD., Elaiussa was the monetary workshop of the king of Cappadocia Archelaus Philopatris Ktistes (36 BC-17 AD) where he minted drachmas and bronzes . Some coins retained the old name of the city while others saw the name of Elaiussa, substituted for that of Sebaste. Sebaste was still used as a workshop by Antiochus IV of Commagene and Iotape (38-74).

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