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Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte · Volume 45 (1995)

Isis und Sarapis in Ionopolis

Wilhelm Hollstein · Francis Jarman

  • pp. 29–37
  • Article
  • German

Abstract

Two aes coin-types from Ionopolis, struck in the time of the joint reign of M. Aurelius and L. Verus (A. D. 161-169), as a unique reverse type show the Egyptian deities Isis and Sarapis. Ionopolis, earlier known as Abonuteichus as a foundation of Sinope, or generally an lonian foundation has copied this motif from Sinope. Chronologically parallel to the Isis coinage of Sinope one can assume that the pieces from Ionopolis were struck in A.D. 162. From this year on Abonuteichus was allowed to call itself Ionopolis by the permission of the emperors. Therefore both coin types are directly connected with the change of the city's name

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Hollstein, Wilhelm / Jarman, Francis: Isis und Sarapis in Ionopolis. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 45 (1995), pp. 29–37.