Æ 27 - Geta ALEXAN-DR-OC AN-EO; OTPONW

Features

Issuer	Otrus (Conventus of Apamea)
Emperor	Geta (Publius Septimius Geta) (209-211)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	193-209
Composition	Brąz
Weight	9.55 g
Diameter	27 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 429353
References	RPC Online V.2# 671 British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University Press (publisher). Roman Provincial Coinage / Volume 5.2 From Pertinax to Macrinus (AD 193–218): Bithynia-Pontus and Asia. British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University Press. , SNG Righetti# 44 Balázs Kapossy; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Schweiz II. Paul Haupt, Bern, Switzerland. , SNG von Aulock# 3906 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes).

Obverse

(en) Bare-headed, cuirassed bust right.

Script: grecki

Lettering: PO CEPT GETAC KAI

Reverse

(en) Otreus embarking on prow of ship to left, right arm raised, head turned back, holding spear in left hand.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
ALEXAN-DR-OC A-NEQHALEXAN-DR-OC AN-EO
OTPONW

Mint

Otrus, Phrygia, Turkey

Comments

(en)

Otrus was one of the five cities of the Eucarpic plain and may have been named Otrus after an emigration from Otroea in Bythinia, which according to Strabo (XII, 566) was founded by Otreus, the king of Phrygia of the time of the Trojan War. The passage about this famous warrior, whom Priam helped fight against the Amazons in a battle on the river Sangarius, in the Iliad (III) is brief but very descriptive: "... When I was in Phrygia I saw many horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans."

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (193-209)

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