CILICIA. Diocaesarea. Julia Domna Augusta AE 193-217 AD

Cilicia, Diocaesarea, bronze coin of Julia Domna as Augusta, struck between 193 and 217 AD.

Obverse: draped bust of Julia Domna facing right. The legend reads IOVΛIA ΔOMNA CЄB, meaning Julia Domna Augusta. Two countermarks were punched into the bust, an eagle and a thunderbolt, together in a small sunken oval. Coins with these two countermarks are rare.

Reverse: the legend AΔP ΔIOKAICAPЄΩN, of the city of Diocaesarea. In the centre a winged thunderbolt standing upright on a throne, its arms shaped as the foreparts of lions.

Reference: SNG Levante 671.

Julia Domna came from Syria and was the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus and the mother of Caracalla and Geta. Diocaesarea lay in the hills of Cilicia and was known for its sanctuary of Zeus. The thunderbolt is the sign of Zeus, and here it appears twice, as the image on the reverse and as a countermark on the obverse. Countermarks like these were added later, while the coin stayed in circulation.

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