Von Anazarbos nach Mopsuhestia. Historische Anmerkungen zu zwei unpublizierten Stadtprägungen der Römischen Kaiserzeit aus Kilikien

Abstract

On the reverse of a medaillon-sized coin of Anazarbus from A. D. 204/05 there is a numeral F (=3) as an abbreviation for "capital of the three provincial areas", and the numeral B (= 2) for "two neokoriai". Not before this year, and not already in A.D. 198 the City was bestowed with the title of a capital. This coinage was supposed to indicate the newly achieved equality in comparison to Tarsus, which too had the same prerogatives and titles. — Further the cult of Isis and Sarapis, known already for the hellenistic times in Mopsuhestia, now is witnessed for the time of the emperor Decius by an aes coin

Suggested citation

Nollé, Johannes / Zellner, Herbert: Von Anazarbos nach Mopsuhestia. Historische Anmerkungen zu zwei unpublizierten Stadtprägungen der Römischen Kaiserzeit aus Kilikien. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 45 (1995), pp. 39–49.