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Figure 14.9B Copper-alloy coin of Gallienus (253–268 CE), minted at Heliopolis. The obverse carries a portrait of the emperor; the reverse shows an athlete holding a victor’s palm branch and placing a crown on his head. Heliopolis was a Roman colony, like Ptolemais, and hence the legends on the coin are in Latin. By the mid-third century it held Greek festivals; its coins refer to a sacred Capitoline ecumenical games, and this type was a standard coin type in the Greek east to denote the athletic element of such festivals.

Figure 14.9C Copper-alloy coin of the early fourth century, minted at Antioch. The obverse shows the Tyche of Antioch, seated on a rock, with the river Orontes personified as a young man swimming beneath her. The legend reads GENIO ANTIOCHENI (“to the genius of Antioch”). The reverse shows another famous Antiochene monument: the statue of Apollo at Daphne near Antioch; and the legend reads APOLLONI SANCTO (“to sacred Apollo”).

Figure 14.9D Copper-alloy coin of Justin I (518–527 CE), minted at Antioch, with a portrait of the emperor on the obverse. The reverse depicts the Tyche of Antioch seated within a two-columned shrine; the backwards letter E in front of her is a value mark (5 nummi).