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Germanikopolis (AD 98-193) AE 29796 views2nd cent AD. AE29 (12.33g). Bearded head of Herakles right, club over shoulder / Apollo(?) standing left, extending arm and holding boule-headed sceptre. VF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-211) AE 28 - Septimus Severus291 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE28 (14.00g, 6h). AVT. KA. CEΠ. CEOYHPOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right / APX. ΠAΦ. ΓEPMANIKOΠOΛЄΩC, Demeter standing left, holding grain ears, poppy, and torch. Good VF, dark brown patina. Attractive portrait. Extremely rare. Spradling Coll.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-211) AE 28 - Septimus Severus195 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE28 / Tetrassarion (15.84g, 6h). AYT•K•Λ•CЄΠ• CЄOVHPOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΓЄΡΜΑÎΙΚΟΠΟΛЄΩC, Asklepios standing facing, head to left, leaning right on serpent-entwined staff. Patina stripped and with a minor die break on the reverse, gVF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-211) AE 29 - Septimus Severus483 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE29 (15.54g, 12h). Dated CY 215 (209/10 AD). AV KAI • Λ • CЄ • CЄOVHPOC, laureate head right / APX ΠA ΓЄPMANIKOΠO ЄCTIA ΘЄΩN, Helios-Sol standing left, rasing hand and holding torch; ЄT/C ЄI (date; sic) across field. Near EF, dark brown and green patina.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-211) AE 30 - Septimus Severus421 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE30 (15.56g, 12h). Dated CY 215 (209/10 AD). AV K Λ C CЄOVHP[OC], laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on garlanded altar, head and tail right, with wings folded, holding wreath in beak; signum on either side, ЄT CЄI (date) in exergue. Good VF, brown and green patina, weakly struck at periphery. Extremely rare type from this city. From Group CEM.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-217) AE 24 - Julia Domna261 viewsJulia Domna, Augusta, 193-217 AD. AE23.5 (7.15g). Draped bust right / Nike advancing right; holding palm and wreath. Light brown tone. VF. Clain-Stefanelli Coll.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-217) AE 29 - Julia Domna 633 viewsJulia Domna, Augusta, 193-217 AD. AE29 (14.40g), dated CY 215 (209/210 AD). Draped bust right / Eagle standing left on cippus; standards flanking. Near VF, dark brown patina, some light roughness. Perhaps unpublished. Ex Wagner Coll.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-217) AE 29 - Julia Domna379 viewsJulia Domna, Augusta, 193 - 217 AD. AE29 (15.22g). ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜÎΑ ΑΥ, draped bust right / ΓЄΡΜΑÎΙΚΟ−ΠΟΛЄΩC ЄΤ / C−ЄΙ, Trophy, with two captives at it’s feet. Rare. Green patina, VF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-217) AE 29 - Julia Domna175 viewsJulia Domna, Augusta, 193-217 AD. AE29 (15.22g). IOYΛ ΔOMNA CЄBAC, draped bust right / ΓЄPMANIKOΠOΛЄΩC ЄCTIAC / ΘЄΩN, Aphrodite kneeling right, head turned slightly left and raising hand to head; Eros to left. Very rare. aVF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-217) AE 30 - Julia Domna781 viewsJulia Domna, 193-217 AD. AE30 (12.39g), 209-210. Draped bust right / ΑÎΤΩÎΙÎΟC ΓEΡΜΑÎΙΚΟΠΟΛ / EΤ CCΓ (= year 215) / Emperor (?) in military uniform and spear galloping right. Decentered, very fine.
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Germanikopolis (AD 193-217) AE 30 - Julia Domna149 viewsJulia Domna, Augusta, 193-217 AD. AE30 - Tetrassarion (14.90g, 7h). Dated CY 214 (208/9 AD). IOYΛIA ΔOMNA AY, draped bust right / ΓЄΡMANIKO-ΠOΛЄΩC ЄT CЄI, Artemis advancing right, shooting arrow from bow; at feet, stag standing right. Extremely rare. Some deposits and encrustations, gVF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 18 - Caracalla209 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE18 (3.50g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle flying right, grasping rabbit(?) with its talons; rabbit is standing right on a rocky outcropping. Fine, dark green to black patina with earthen highlights/deposits. Very rare, Bricault & Delrieux cite only two examples, with one in the Hermitage, and the other in a private collection (ex Schulten [4/1988], lot 566.
Acknowledgements to Michel Amandry for noting the Bricault & Delrieux reference.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 27 - Caracalla594 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE27 (14.32g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Cityscape: two civic buildings between two towers. VF, glossy green patina. Extremely rare and highly interesting type.
Richmond (“The Town of Germanicopolis-Gangra in Paphlagonia†NC 1929, pp. 310-2) describes the central structures on the reverse as two distinct buildings, perhaps the city’s forum and basilica, with a narrow alley running between. Robertson, however, suggests that they may represent a single gatehouse, an idea initially dismissed by Richardson due to the uncharacteristically pitched roofs. The current specimen lacks what seems to be a curved wall seen on the latter two specimens referenced above, but exhibits an even more pronounced break between the central structures. They cannot form a gate, and must therefore represent two civic buildings, the smaller of which is shown in perspective. The type can thus be interpreted as a cross-section of the city; the two side towers represent two opposite entrances, with a circular wall around (on at least some specimens), and depicting in the center what must have been among the most important civic buildings.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 28 - Caracalla539 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE28 (14.09g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, drapery on far shoulder / Apis bull advancing right, head facing; behind, two signa with bucrania. Unpublished. VF, brown patina, light traces of silvering, some deposits. Extremely rare. Ex Lanz 125 (11/2005), lot 880.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 28 - Caracalla331 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE28 (14.12g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bustleft, holding spear and shield with gorgoneion / Bull right, head facing; behind, two signa with bucrania. VF, green and brown patina, roughness.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 28 - Caracalla299 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE28 (15.63g, 1h). Laureate head right / Apis bull standing right, raising foreleg; behind, two signa surmounted by bucrania. VF, tan surfaces. Very rare. Spradling Coll.; ex Cooper Coll., CNG Elec. Auc. 101 (11/ 2004), lot 83; Hecht Coll.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 28 - Caracalla207 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE28 (13.96g, 7h). ANTΩNINOC CЄBA, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield decorated with head of Medusa / ANTΩNI... CЄBAC ΓЄPMANIKOΠO/ΛITЄ, Caracalla on hoseback to right, holding spear. VF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 29 - Caracalla285 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE28.5 (14.85g). Laureate head right / Demeter standing left, holding grain ears, poppy, and torch. Apparently unpublished. Lovely brwon-reddish patina. Minor deposits on reverse; otherwise Extremely Fine.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 29 - Caracalla221 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE29 (14.9g). AYT K M AYP ANTΩNINOC, laureate bust right / APX ΠAΦ / ΓANΓPΩN, cityscape: two secular buildings between two towers. Very rare. VF.
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Germanikopolis (AD 198-217) AE 30 - Caracalla491 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE30 (13.95g). 209/210 AD. [...] Îœ ΑΥΡΗ ΑÎΤΩÎ[...], radiate and draped bust right / ΓЄΡΜΑÎΙΚΟΠΟΛЄΩC / ЄT / CЄI (Year 125), eagle seated on altar in between two standards. Rare. Dark green patina. gVF.
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