weight 12,40gr. | bronze Ø 27mm.
obv. Confronted busts of Gordianus III, laureate, draped and cuirassed,
right, seen from rear, and Sarapis, draped, left, ΑΥΤ Κ Μ below,
surrounded by the legend ΑΝΤΩNIOC ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ AVΓ
rev. Theos Megas riding on horse right, raising right hand and holding
cornucopia, value mark E in exergue, surrounded by the legend
ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Dionysopolis was a town of ancient Thrace, later of Moesia, on the river Ziras. It existed within the present town of Balchik (Bulgaria). It was founded as a Thracian settlement in was founded in the 5th century BC, but was later colonised by the Ionian ancient Greeks and given the name Cruni or Krounoi. It was named Krounoi from the nearby founts of water. It was renamed as Dionysopolis after the discovery of a statue of Dionysus in the sea. Later it became a Greek-Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress. The town also bore the name Matiopolis. In the beginning of the 3rd century BC the city was relatively independent and included in the system of fortifications built by Diadohite. In the 6th century the town was destroyed by an earthquake and the population moved within the new fortification, whose construction began at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th century. Later, in the 7th century the town was in possession of the Bulgars and Slavs and was renamed first to Karvuna, and after that, Balik.
BMC- | SNG.Copenhagen- | AMNG.- | Weber collection -
Lindgren collection- | SNG.München- | SNG.Tübingen-
Tachev, Dionysopolis p. 556, pl. 53, no. 223-237 | Jekov 37
Varbanov I, 545 | SNG Kikpe II, 135 | RPC VII.2, no 1640
attractive dark patina
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