Head, Barclay V.: Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887)

PONTUS.

Inscr., XABAKTX1N. Types : Aegis, -rev. Nike ; Head of Ares, rev. Sword ;
Head of Perseus, rev. Pegasos.
Comana, on the Iris, called Pontica to distinguish it from the Cappa-
docian Comana, -was famed for its cultus of the goddess Enyo (Millingen,
Anc. Gr. C., 67), the high priest of whose temple ranked next in dignity
to the king of Pontus. Under the Romans the place bore the name of
Hierocaesareia.
Autonomous bronze of the regal period. Inscr., KOMANflN. Types:
Head of Perseus, rev. Star; Head of Athena, rev. Perseus standing over
body of Medusa; Aegis, rev. Nike; Bust of Enyo radiate, rev. Club;
Imperial—Nerva, Severus, Gallienus. Inscr., ICPOKAICAP. KOMANCflN.
Types: Nike in temple; Goddess Enyo, etc. The era of Comana dates
from A. D. 40.

Gaziura, on the Iris, between Comana and Amasia, one of the resi-
dences of the kings of Pontus, but deserted in the time of Strabo (xii. 13.)
For the silver coins of the dynast Ariarathes, with the Aramaic wwcr.,
'T'Tjbyn and {Num. Ch/ron., 1884, Pl. V. 12), struck between about
B. c. 330 and 322, see Kings of Cappadocia.
Autonomous bronze of the Mithradatic period. Inscr., TAZIOYPHN.
Types: Head of Zeus, rev. Eagle on fulmen ; Head of Ares, rev. Sword.
Laodiceia. (Waddington, Mel. de Num., ii. 131), probably the modern
Ladik, about twenty miles north of Amasia, known only from its coins.
Autonomous bronze of the Mithradatic period. Inscr., AAOAIKEX1N.
Types: Aegis, rev. Nike ; Head of Ares, rev. Sword, etc.
Neocaesareia, on the Lycus, sixty-three miles east of Amasia, is identified
by some authorities with Cabeira. Imperial—Tiberius to Gallienus. Inscr.,
NEOKAICAPIAC, NCOKAICAPCGN, or AAPIANnN NCOKCCAPCUN.
The town also bore the title of MHTPOnOAIC flONTOY, and Games
were held there called KOI NA nON TOY, variously abbreviated on the
coins as K. no., KOIN. no., KOIN. CN no., AKTIA, etc. Other legends,
AIC N€n[KOPnN], etc.
The era of Neocaesareia dates from A. D. 63.
Types: Personifications of five cities standing with Neocaesareia in
their midst, the river-god Lycus swimming at her feet: Tetrastyle
temple ; Agonistic Table and Urn, etc.
Feiraeeus. See Amisus. 4
Fharnacia, some 300 stadia west of Cerasus, with which place it has
been often confounded, and of which it now bears the name.
Autonomous bronze of the Mithradatic period. Inscr., <t>APNAKEIlN
or <t>APN AKEI AZ. Head of Zeus, rev. Gibbous Bull; Head of Zeus, rev.
Eagle on fulmen.
Fimolisa, on the Halys, the capital of the district Pimolisene. Auto-
nomous bronze of the Mithradatic period. Inscr., m MflAI ZC1N. Types:
Head of Ares, rev. Sword ; Head of Zeus, rev. Eagle.