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Quasi-autonomous, Bust of Kore/ Arrival of Caracalla. AE 31; Quasi-autonomous, Bust of Kore/ Arrival of Caracalla; Cyzicus, Mysia, Reign of Caracalla, AE 31, 21.39g. S. Obv: KOPH - COTEIPA Draped bust of Kore r., hair in knot behind neck, wearing oak wreath with wheat ear at top. Rx: [AVP ANTONEI]NIAN - K - VZIKHN ?IC around, [NE]OKOP in exergue, Bare-headed Caracalla on horse pacing l., raising r. hand in greeting and holding spear or scepter diagonally in l. hand. Apparently unpublished reverse type for Caracalla at Cyzicus, referring to his passage through Asia Minor in 214-5 including probable visit to Cyzicus. Two comparable types are known on medallions of Caracalla at Cyzicus, one showing Caracalla sacrificing at an altar between two vexilla, the other showing him standing and raising his right hand in greeting before a statue of Serapis seated with Cerberus at his feet: see SNG Paris-776 and 778. In addition, the legends of these coins boast two new honors that were probably granted in connection with the imperial visit: a second neocorate and the title "Antoninian" for the city and its inhabitants, derived of course from Caracalla's own dynastic name "Antoninus". One of those two neocorates was for Kore herself, who appears on the obverse of our coin, as we can tell from another reverse type of Caracalla at Cyzicus, showing the square shrine of Kore at Cyzicus alongside an ordinary temple, with the title "holder of two neocorates": see SNG Paris-782 and Imhoof-Blumer, Zur gr. u. röm. Münzkunde, pp. 41-46 and pl. III.16. That our coin, despite its lack of imperial portrait, belongs to this same commemorative issue under Caracalla is evident first from the titles "[Antoni]nian" and "holder of two neocorates" on the reverse, and second from the fact, noted by H. von Fritze, Die autonome Kupferprägung von Kyzikos, Nomisma X, 1917, p. 29, that a Kore obverse die of the same size and style as ours shares a Galley reverse die of Cyzicus as "Antoninian" and "holder of two neocorates", with an obverse die of the bearded Caracalla himself, namely SNG Paris-784. The Kore obverse die of our coin was also used with the reverses Hades carrying off Kore, von Fritze, p. 27, no. 41, pl. VI.34, and Attis reclining, Gorny & Mosch 152, 2006, 1780 = 126, 2003, 1806.Somewhat rough and encrusted
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