Tyana (AD 98-117) AE 26 - Trajan

Trajan, 98-117 AD. AE26 (13.86g), struck under legate T. Pomponius Bassus 98/99 AD (year 1). AVT NEPOVAC TPAIAN KAICAP Î“EP, draped, cuirassed and laureate bust right / EÎ I BA - CCOV Î PECBEVT - TVANEÎ©N, Tyche of Tyana, in long garment and wearing mural-crown, standing left on cippus, holding two grain-ears in extended right hand and resting with left hand on cippus; beneath, river-god Lamus swimming right; in left and right field ET - A (year 1). Rare, F/good F. Hoeft coll.

Tyana was situated on a tributary of the river Lamus. Because the river-god sometimes holds a torch it seems to be the river Phoibos (Note of Prof. Nolle in R. Falter, FluÃŸ- und BerggÃ¶tter in der Antike)

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City/Mint name:	Tyana
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