Description: Archaios Numismatics __________________________________________ Description: Greek Bronze Coin of Isinda, Pisidia in Asia Minor, circa 1st Century BC. Obverse: Laureate Head of Artemis (Apollo) Right Reverse: Wreath of Laurel containing central Ethnic ΙΣΙΝ Mint: Isinda, Pisidia Size: 15 mm Weight: 2.43 g Ref: SNG von Aulock -- ; SNG Cop --; BMC Pisidia -- ; Very interesting and quite Rare type from Isinda. Condition: VF, Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective. Note: Isinda, was an ancient town of Pisidia on the Taurus River, west of Termessus. Isinda stood in a strategic position at the western end of the pass leading from Pamphylia by Termessus to Pisidia. Isinda was later included in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda. The Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, on his victorious march through Asia Minor in 189 BCE, found the city besieged by Termessus and at the city's request he ended the siege and fined the Termessians 50 talents. Later in early Christianity it became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Perge, the capital of the province. The site of the town is near present day Korkuteli, Turkey and now thought to be located at the village of Kişla. In the 1840s, Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt and Edward Forbes visited Kişla, an hour's ride from Korkuteli (referred to as Stenez), with extensive walls of soft stone and burnt brick, and identified it as the city of Isinda. Coinage The town produced Autonomous Bronzes in the first century B.C. Inscribed as ΙΣΙΝ or ΙΣΙΝΔΕ. These included some of the following Types — Head of Artemis; Quiver; Helmet; Ear of corn; Head of Zeus (Solymeus ?); Mounted deity, helmeted, with spear, accompanied by serpent; In addition there were Pseudo-Autonomous and Imperial coinage from Antoninus Pius to Salonina. Inscribed as ΙCΙΝΔЄΩΝ and ΙCΙΝΔЄΩΝ ЄΙΩΝΩΝ. These included some of the following Types— Mounted deity with serpent as before; Mother-goddess enthroned holding child, serpent Sabazios before her; Head of Zeus; Busts of Sarapis and Isis; Artemis of Perga; Herakles standing; Wingless Nike writing ΑΡЄ (unexplained) on shield; Nemesis; Hermes seated, or with Tyche standing; Eubosia standing with phiale, cornucopiae and Ploutos; Wreath with pendent flowers; Human foot; River-god Tauros. These also included Mark of value Γ (Salonina). Regnal years, B, ЄΤ, Δ, Ϛ, &c. Magistrate (?), ΑΡΧ·M (Treb. Gallus and Volusian). The district of Pisidia included all the mountainous country of Asia Minor between Phrygia and the north of Pamphylia and north-east of Lycia. Pisidia was not civilized in early times, as it possessed no means of communication with the sea, and the only town in the district which struck money before the time of Alexander the Great was Selge. In B.C. 39 Pisidia was bestowed by M. Antonius upon Amyntas, king of Galatia, who held it until his death in B.C. 25. In B.C. 6 Augustus founded a line of colonies, Antiocheia, Olbasa, Cremna, and Comama. Excerpts from Head, Hist.Num. and Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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