Watch List notes:

LYDIA. Philadelphia. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Assarion (Bronze, 20 mm, 4.76 g, 6 h), Pollianos, first archon. Time of Trajan, 98-117. ΖЄΥС ΚΟΡΥΦΑΙΟС Draped bust of Zeus Koryphaios to right, wearing taenia. Rev. ЄΠΙ ΠΩΛΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΦΙΛΑΔЄΛΦЄΩΝ Tyche standing front, head to left, holding rudder in her right hand and cornucopiae in her left. GRPC 73. RPC III 2370. Rare and of fine style. Minor cleaning scratches on the reverse, otherwise, about very fine.


Koryphaios is an epithet of Zeus referring to his role as supreme god of the mountaintops. He was worshipped as such in Philadelphia in Lydia and in Seleucia Pieria, but the Greeks also equated Zeus Koryphaios with Jupiter Capitolinus. Theoderet of Cyrrhus, a 5th century theologian, reports that the name derives from Mount Koryphe near Antiochia on the Orontes, where an oracle of Zeus Koryphaios existed.