Watch List notes:

Quasi-autonomous. AE 25; Quasi-autonomous; Hieropolis, Phrygia, 2nd cent. AD, AE 25, 10.35g. Num. Chron. 1913, pl. III, 51 (Bologna, same dies); BMC-38, pl. XXIX.12 (same obv. die). Obv: IEPA?O[?EI] - TON Head of young Dionysus r. wearing ivy wreath. Rx: Rape of Persephone by Hades, with billowing chlamys and scepter, in quadriga of galloping horses r.; no legend. "In Phrygia we only find the rape of Persephone at Hierapolis. Its frequent occurrence as a coin-type here...is explained by the shrine of Charon in the centre of the old town, in which the cult of Kybele also was localized, and to which the town owes its origin" (L. Weber, Num. Chron. 1913, p. 145). VF