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

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LAODICEIA AD MADE—SE.LEUCIA.

661

Faltus, a coast-town between Gabala and Balanea. Imperial bronze—
Commodusto Elagabalus. Inscr., FTAATHNHN. Dates according to two
eras, one calculated from b. C. 239, tbe other, according to Pellerin (Mel.,
ii. 335), from some time between B. C. 97 and 81. Types—The Dioskuri;
Bust of goddess wearing modius, etc.
Haphanaea, some five and twenty miles south-west of Epiphaneia and
west of Arethusa. Imperial—Elagabalus and Severus Alexander. Inscr.,
PA0ANEHTHN, P€<t ANEHTDN, PETANEATD.N or P€<t>AN€DN, Tyche
of City standing or seated crowning a bull; in field, right and left, an
eagle..

Bhosus, on the gulf of Issus. Autonomous bronze. Inscr., PGCGDN
or PncenN THC KPAG KAI aCYAOY, with addition sometimes of KAI
AYTONOMOY. Imperial—Claudius to Severus Alexander. Dates ac-
cording to the Caesarian era, B. c. 48, and the Actian era (b. C. 31).
Types—Head of Zeus ; Head of Tyche ; Oriental divinity facing standing
on base placed between two bulls : his head is horned and he holds a
fulmen and an ear of Corn (Imhoof, Mon. Gr., p. 440).

Seleucia, the port of Antioch situate at the foot of Mount Pieria.
Regal bronze, with heads of Antiochus IV, Alexander Bala, or Anti-
ochus VII and VIII. Inscr., SEAEYKEDN TAN EM niEPIAI. See
also coins inscribed AAEATD.N AH MUN (p. 656), some dated according
to the Seleucid era. Autonomous bronze, mostly of’the first century
b.c. Inscr., SEAEYKEDN. SEAEYKEDN TON EM niEPIAI, SEAEY-
KEHN niEPIAS, or THZ IEPAS KAI AYTONOMOY, or ASYAOY.
Type—Head of Zeus, rev. Fulmen, sometimes lying on throne of Zeus.
Some of the later specimens are dated according to the Pompeian era
(b. c. 64) and the Actian era (b. C. 31).
There are also autonomous silver tetradrachms and drachms of the
following types, bearing dates ranging from 4 to 26, computed pro-
bably from the era of the autonomy of the town, B. c. 108 ( = b. c.
104-82):—

Head of Tyche, turreted.

Id.
Head of Zeus.

(Z.f. N., iii. 350.)

SEAEYKEDN THS IEPAS KAI
AYTONOMOY Fulmen on throne
Al Tetradr. 230-215 grs.
SEAEYKEDN THS AYTONOMOY
Nike, or Fulmen Al Drachm. and| Dr.
SEAEYKEDN THS AYTONOMOY
Fulmen Ad Diobol.

Imperial—Al Tetradrachms of Augustus and Tiberius only, and 2E to
Severus Alexander. Usual types—Fulmen on throne; Conical stone in
temple, usually inscribed ZEYC KACIOC or Z€YC KEPAYNIOC. The
thunderbolt was worshipped at Seleucia as the emblem of Zeus, who
guided Seleucus in his choice of a site for the city.
 
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