PAMPHYLIA. Side. Aemilian, 253. Pentassarion (Bronze,

PAMPHYLIA. Side. Aemilian, 253. Pentassarion (Bronze, 32 mm, 16.93 g, 7 h). AYTO•K•MAP AI AIMIΛIANON ЄYC Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Aemilian to right, seen from behind; before, Є (mark of value). Rev. CIΔHTΩN Archaic statue of Apollo advancing to left, holding patera in his right hand and small bow in his left. RPC IX 1163.4 (this coin). Very rare. The finest known example and in exceptional condition for a provincial issue of Aemilian. Minor smoothing, otherwise, extremely fine.


Ex Triton XXII, 8-9 January 2019, 503 and Tkalec, 23 October 1992, 396.

Only a few cities issued Roman Provincial coins in the name of the usurper Aemilian, namely Viminacium, the Dacian province, Parium, Amisus, Gordus-Julia, Side, Antioch in Pisidia, Aegeae, and Alexandria in Egypt.