Thrace, Bizya. Philip II. 244-249 AD. Ć 30mm (12.30 gm). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Demeter standing left with sceptre and grain ears. BMC Thrace pg. 91, 15. VF, nice blue-green patina, light cleaning marks in fields. 725859
Bizya, near the sources of the Agrianes, about eighty miles north-west of Byzantium. Quasi-autonomous and Imperial. Hadrian to Philip Jun. Inscr., ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ Magistrate under Hadrian, Presbeutes and Antistra- tegos; under S. Sev. ΗΓΕ[μονευοντος] (Berl. Cat., I. 139). Chief types— Head of young Dionysos, Rev. Seilenos with kantharos and askos; View of city enclosed by walls and turrets (Z. f. N., xxi. Pl. VIII. 5); Kapa- neus with shield, spear, and scaling ladder (Ephem. Arch., 1889, Pl. II. 15); Apollo (Iatros) between Asklepios and Hygieia; Banquet of God and Goddess (θεοξενιον) (Pick, in Jahr. Arch. Inst., XIII. 145); Hera seated with peacock on her knees; River-god, &c. Alliance coins with Byzantium.
