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Chaponnière & Firmenich SA > Auction 13Auction date: 16 May 2021
Lot number: 336

Lot description:


ROMAN EMPIRE. Cilicia. Hadrian, 117-138. Diassarion, Germanicopolis. RPC 3209; SNG von Aulock 8674. BR. 5.32 g. VF+ corroded
From the J. M. A. L. collection formed between 1970 and 2000; Ex. Samlung Prowe, Egger Bruder auction XVLI, 11 May 1914, lot 2183.
The city of Germanicopolis was founded by the Graeco-Armenian King Antiochios IV of Commagene in honor of his Roman patron Germanicus. Its only coinage dates to the time of Hadrian, whose name it bore as an epithet.

Starting Price: 150 CHF