Cilicia. Korykos. Valerian I AD 253-260.
Bronze Æ
29 mm, 12,21 g
AV K ΠO ΛIK OVAΛEPIANOC; radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [KΩPV]- (in exergue) -KIΩTΩN AV NAVAP- (in right field) -XIC (in the middle); decorated price-urn inscribed ΘEMIA, with palm branch between kerykeion left and aphlaston right, standing on table with lion-shaped feet, vase in front; Dionysos, wearing nebris and boots, standing left, holding vine-grapes in right hand and resting on thyrsos with left hand; left at his feet, panther standing left, head turned right, raising right foot.
nearly very fine
BMC 21; SNG Levante 820; SNG Copenhagen 123; SNG France 1123; SNG von Aulock 5686; Klose & Stumpf 259.