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LYDIA. Nicaea Cilbianorum (Cilbiani Inferiores). Antoninus Pius (138-161). Ae.
Obv: AV KAICAP ANTΩNINOC.
Laureate head right.
Rev: KIΛBIANΩN ΠЄPI NIKAIAN.
River god Kilbos reclining left, holding reed and corncopia, and resting elbow upon overturned urn from which liquid flows.
Cf. RPC IV online 9769; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -.
Extremely rare.
Condition: Good fine.
Weight: 7,01g.
Diameter: 21 mm
The Cilbiani were a people so called after the river Kilbos, an affluent of the upper Kaystros (or Cayster), which by imperial times seem to have been divided into two separate communes in the upper and lower reaches of the Kilbos. The coins of the Lower Cilbiani were struck at the chief city of the Kilbos valley, Nicaea.
