weight 6,73gr. | bronze Ø 18mm.
obv.Bare head of Marcus Aurelius right, surrounded by the legend
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕ
rev. Apollo advancing right, playing lyre, surrounded by the legend
ϹΙΛΛ - ΥΩΝ
Sillyon, a Pamphylian city, was established on top of a flat hill with almost steep slopes between Perge and Aspendos, which can be seen from both cities. According to one legend, the city was founded as a colony from Argos, while another holds that it was founded, along with Side and Aspendos, by the heroes Mopsos, Calchas and Amphilochus after the Trojan War. The city is first mentioned in c. 500 BC by Pseudo-Scylax (polis Sylleion). From 469 BC, the city (as Sillyon) became part of the Athenian-led Delian League. It is mentioned in the Athenian tribute lists in c. 450 BC and again in 425 BC, and then disappears again from the historical record until 333 BC, when Alexander the Great is said to have unsuccessfully besieged it. According to Arrian (Anabasis Alexandri I. 26), the site (recorded as Syllion) was well-fortified and had a strong garrison of mercenaries and "native barbarians", so that Alexander, pressed for time, had to abandon the siege after the first attempt at storming it failed.
The city was extensively rebuilt under the Seleucids, especially its theatre. In later times, when most of western Asia Minor fell to the Attalid kingdom, Sillyon remained a free city by a decision of the Roman Senate. Throughout Antiquity, the city was relatively unimportant, but under the Byzantine Empire, the city rose to relative prominence. It is mentioned as the site of the destruction of an Arab fleet by storm in late 677 or 678, following the unsuccessful Arab Siege of Constantinople. As one of the major fortified sites of the area, it became the seat of an imperial representative, complementing the stratēgos of the naval theme of the Kibyrrhaiotai. Syllaeum was also located at the start of the great public road that linked the southern coast, via Amorium and Nicaea, with Bithynia and the capital Constantinople. In this position, it began to eclipse the traditional local metropolis of Perge, and sometime between 787 and 815, the local bishop′s seat was transferred to Syllaeum. Together with the wider area of Pamphylia, the city fell to the Seljuks in 1207.
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RPC Online IV.3, no.25183 (2 specimens listed) RRR
extremely rare coin type
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