PHRYGIA. Eucarpeia. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Hemiassarion (Orichalcum, 17 mm, 3.26 g, 12 h), time of Hadrian. Pedia Secunda, epimelètheisa, 117-138. ΒΟΥΛΗ ЄΥΚΑΡΠЄΩΝ Veiled and draped bust of the Boulè to right. Rev. ЄΠΙ ΠЄΔΙΑϹ ϹЄΚΟΥΝΔΗϹ Hermes standing front, head to left, holding purse in his right hand and kerykeion in his left. BMC 1. Martin, Eucarpeia, 2. RPC III, 2592.6 (this coin). Patina stripped, otherwise, very fine.


This is one of the few cases of a woman financing a coin emission: Pedia Secunda must have been an unusually wealthy woman and apparently played an important role in her town. RPC speculates that she may have been the wife of P. Cl. Max. Marcellianus, who is known from other coins of Eucarpeia (see RPC III, p. 863).