PISIDIA. Apollonia-Mordiaeum. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Tetrassarion (Bronze, 31 mm, 18.32 g, 12 h), time of Caracalla, circa 211-217. AΛЄΞA KTIC AΠΟΛΛΩNIATΩN Head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. IΠΠOΦOPAC The river-god Hippophoras reclining to left, holding reed with his right hand, cornucopiae with his left and leaning left on urn from which water flows. SNG von Aulock 4988. Von Aulock, Pisidien II, 49-51 (all from the same dies). Rare. Very fine.


Apollonia-Mordiaion was the Hellenistic refoundation of an older settlement named Mordiaion. In Severan time, the city issued a series of large bronzes claiming Alexander the Great as its founder, undoubtedly both as a commemoration of its Hellenistic origins as well as in an attempt to please the emperor Caracalla, whose imitatio alexandri was well known.