Description: Pontos, Neocaesarea, Caracalla (198 - 217 AD). AY KAI M AYPH ANTΩNINOC; youthful laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla right / KOIΠON NEO KAI MHTRO; tetrastyle temple with statue of Zeus on cippus within, ETPMB in exergue.

Diameter: AE30 mm

Weight: 13,8 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: SNG v. Aulock 6760; RecGen 22

Commentary: green patina with light deposits, large flan

History: Neocaesarea was a birthplace of Gregory the Wonderworker (ca 213 – ca 270 AD), later the bishop of his native town, of whom is said that, at the time of his consecration, Neocaesarea had only seventeen Christians and that at his death it counted only seventeen pagans.

Article Number: 008-01-05-41652