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BITHYNIA.
After circ. b. c. 200.
Under the rule of the earlier kings of Bithynia the silver coinage
ceases, but when Philip V. of Macedon took the town and presented it to
Prusias I., it received from him the name of Prusias ad Mare, and struck
bronze coins, reading riPOYZIEClN TC1N IIPOZ OAAAZZHI. Types
various. At a still later period, about the time of Mithradates, coins
were struck there in the names of two Queens : Musa, daughter of
Orsobaris, BAZIAIZZHZ MOYZHZ OPZOBAPIOZ and Oradaltis,daughter
of an equally unknown king, Lycomedes, flPAAAATIAOZ BAZIAEDZ
AYKOMHAOY OYTATPOZ; rev. riPOYZIERN IIPOZ OAAAZZHI.
Under Roman rule.
Under the Romans Cius recovered its original name, and Imperial
coins are known from Claudius to Gallienus, among which the following
may be mentioned: ANTlNOfll HPjCAI, rev. KIANIOIC ANEOHKEN ZE
medallion: HPAKAEOYC KTICTOY KlANflN. On a coin of Severus is
the remarkable CEYHPOY BACIAEYONTOC 0 KOCMOC EYTYXEI
MAK API 01 KlANOI. Other types—Youth Hylas, holding bucket from
which water flows (cf. Strab., 564). Youth Kios, seated on rock adjusting
his sandal.
Claudiopolis. See Bithynium.
Creteia - Flaviopolis. Inscr., KPHTIEI1N <t>AA0YI0TT0AIT.C2N or
KPHTEIA 4>AAOYIOTIOAIC, or 4>AABI0n0AIC. Imperial—Antoninus to
Gallienus. Types various. Among them the most important is the River-
god BIAAEOC, clearly identical with the river Bl AAA IOC, which occurs
on the coins of Tium. (Berl. Blatt., v. 16.) Of this town there is a dedi-
catory coin reading APXIEPEYC ANEOHKE (Mion., Sup., v. 32).
Dia, on the Euxine, west of Heracleia Pontica, in Bithynia.
Autonomous bronze of the first century B. c.
Head of Zeus. | Al AZ Eagle on fulmen . . . ZE -8
Imperial—Augustus only. Inscr., AlANflN. Magistrate’s name in
wreath (Brit. Mus.).
Gordium. See Iuliopolis.
Hadriani and Hadrianothera. See under Mysia.
Hadrianopolis (?). Imperial—Hadrian, Antinoiis, and Sev. Alex., etc.
Inscr., AAPIANOnOAElTClN. Magistrates’ names sometimes with title
Strategos.
Across the field of the coins sometimes—CEB.
This is not altogether a satisfactory attribution, as it transgresses the
rule laid down by M. Waddington, with regard to the non-occurrence of
local magistrates’ names outside the limits of the Roman Province of
Asia. (See p. 432, note.)
Heracleia Fontica. This city, at one time the capital of eastern
Bithynia, attained to its greatest prosperity in the latter part of the
fourth century, under its tyrants Clearchus (b. c. 364-353), Timotheus,
BITHYNIA.
After circ. b. c. 200.
Under the rule of the earlier kings of Bithynia the silver coinage
ceases, but when Philip V. of Macedon took the town and presented it to
Prusias I., it received from him the name of Prusias ad Mare, and struck
bronze coins, reading riPOYZIEClN TC1N IIPOZ OAAAZZHI. Types
various. At a still later period, about the time of Mithradates, coins
were struck there in the names of two Queens : Musa, daughter of
Orsobaris, BAZIAIZZHZ MOYZHZ OPZOBAPIOZ and Oradaltis,daughter
of an equally unknown king, Lycomedes, flPAAAATIAOZ BAZIAEDZ
AYKOMHAOY OYTATPOZ; rev. riPOYZIERN IIPOZ OAAAZZHI.
Under Roman rule.
Under the Romans Cius recovered its original name, and Imperial
coins are known from Claudius to Gallienus, among which the following
may be mentioned: ANTlNOfll HPjCAI, rev. KIANIOIC ANEOHKEN ZE
medallion: HPAKAEOYC KTICTOY KlANflN. On a coin of Severus is
the remarkable CEYHPOY BACIAEYONTOC 0 KOCMOC EYTYXEI
MAK API 01 KlANOI. Other types—Youth Hylas, holding bucket from
which water flows (cf. Strab., 564). Youth Kios, seated on rock adjusting
his sandal.
Claudiopolis. See Bithynium.
Creteia - Flaviopolis. Inscr., KPHTIEI1N <t>AA0YI0TT0AIT.C2N or
KPHTEIA 4>AAOYIOTIOAIC, or 4>AABI0n0AIC. Imperial—Antoninus to
Gallienus. Types various. Among them the most important is the River-
god BIAAEOC, clearly identical with the river Bl AAA IOC, which occurs
on the coins of Tium. (Berl. Blatt., v. 16.) Of this town there is a dedi-
catory coin reading APXIEPEYC ANEOHKE (Mion., Sup., v. 32).
Dia, on the Euxine, west of Heracleia Pontica, in Bithynia.
Autonomous bronze of the first century B. c.
Head of Zeus. | Al AZ Eagle on fulmen . . . ZE -8
Imperial—Augustus only. Inscr., AlANflN. Magistrate’s name in
wreath (Brit. Mus.).
Gordium. See Iuliopolis.
Hadriani and Hadrianothera. See under Mysia.
Hadrianopolis (?). Imperial—Hadrian, Antinoiis, and Sev. Alex., etc.
Inscr., AAPIANOnOAElTClN. Magistrates’ names sometimes with title
Strategos.
Across the field of the coins sometimes—CEB.
This is not altogether a satisfactory attribution, as it transgresses the
rule laid down by M. Waddington, with regard to the non-occurrence of
local magistrates’ names outside the limits of the Roman Province of
Asia. (See p. 432, note.)
Heracleia Fontica. This city, at one time the capital of eastern
Bithynia, attained to its greatest prosperity in the latter part of the
fourth century, under its tyrants Clearchus (b. c. 364-353), Timotheus,