PHRYGIA. Prymnessus. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Triassarion (Orichalcum, 25 mm, 11.07 g, 6 h), time of Marcus Aurelius, 161-180. IЄPA CYNKΛHTOC Draped bust of the Roman Senate to right. Rev. ΠΡVΜΝΗϹϹЄΩΝ Kybele seated to left on throne, holding her right hand above forepart of lion to left and leaning left on tympanon. BMC 11-13. RPC IV.2 online -. Von Aulock, Phrygien II, 895-904. A beautiful coin with very attractive orichalcum highlights. Light scratches on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.


This issue was dated to the Severan period by von Aulock, but the style reveals the hand of an artist working under Marcus Aurelius (see RPC IV.2 online 1917 = von Aulock, Phrygien II, 1088). Curiously, while RPC IV lists a type with Boulè on the obverse and Dikaiosyne on the reverse as Antonine (RPC IV.2 online 3353, thereby rightly correcting von Aulock), it omitts our coin, even though the two issues are clearly connected and its dies were crafted by the same artist.