Description: Pisidia, Ariassos, 1st century BC. Laureate head of bearded Zeus right / APIA; humped bull butting left.

Diameter: AE14 mm

Weight: 2,82 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: SNG von Aulock, Pis. I, 67, 229. SNG France 1368

Commentary: rare; dark olive patina with some deposits and bronze highlights, good details with clear ethnic, some roughness on reverse

History: Some inscription found in Arassos indicates that the city had ist own chronology for counting of the years with the beginning sometime around 190-185 BC - a time, when Pisidia became a part of Pegamene Kingdom.

Article Number: 020-09-03-41652