weight 14,36gr. | bronze Ø 29mm.
obv. Laureate head of Domitianus right, surrounded by
the legend ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹЄΒΑϹ
rev. Athena, helmeted, standing left, holding patera in right hand
and spear in left, shield leaning against bottom of spear,
surrounded by the legend ΑΙΖΑΝЄΙ - ΤѠΝ
Settlement in the area of Aezanis (or Aizanoi / Aezani) is known from the Bronze Age. The city may have derived its name from Azan, one of three sons of Arcas and the nymph Erato, legendary ancestors of the Phrygians. During the Hellenistic period the city changed hands between the Kingdom of Pergamum and the Kingdom of Bithynia, before being bequeathed to Rome by the former in 133 BC. It continued to mint its own coins. The city was an important political and economic centre in Roman times surviving remains from the period include a well-preserved Temple of Zeus, a combined theatre-stadium complex, and a round building, probably a macellum, inscribed with a copy of the Price Edict of Diocletian. Aizanoi became a Christian bishopric, with its bishop, Pisticus, being a participant at the First Countil of Nicaea in 325. The former city is no longer a bishopric, and is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see. After the 7th century, Aizanoi fell into decline. Later, during Seljuk times, the temple hill was repurposed as a citadel. The ruins of the city were discovered in 1824 by European travellers. Its monumental buildings date from the early Empire to the 3rd century. It′s remains are located at the site of the modern village of Çavdarhisar, near Kütahya, on both sides of the Penkalas river.
BMC 95 | SNG. von Aulock 3353 | SNG.Copenhagen 93
Hans von Aulock, Zur Münzprägung von Aizanoi, in R. Naumann,
Der Zeustempel zu Aizanoi (1979) 82-94, p. 91 Nr. 42.
Waddington 5572-5573var. | Sear GIC 841 | RPC II, 1367
attractive dark patina
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