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Coin from Philadelphia (AD 193–211). Obv.: ZEYC KORYFAIOC. Head of Zeus Koryphaeos with his hair bound by a taenia. Rev.: ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN. Aphrodite is standing holding an apple in her outstretched left hand, while her right hand is raised drawing up the edge of her chiton (BMC 24; SNG Tübingen 3749; RPC 3.2385).

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Coin from Philadelphia. (Struck under Septimius Severus). Obv.: IOYLIA CEBACTH. Portrait of Julia Domna (AD 170–217). Rev.: EPI DOKIMOY ARXONTOC FILADELFEWN, tetrastyle temple with statue of Aphrodite standing looking left, and dolphin at her foot (Apparently unpublished)

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Coin from Philadelphia. Obv.: ΔHMOC ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN. Laureated head of Demos, son of Aphrodite (AD 198–268). Rev.: EPI P KAIKI KLEWNOC ARX A. Aphrodite standing right in a long chiton, holding an apple in her outstretched left hand and draping herself with a chiton which she draws over her right shoulder (Lindgren 1:774).

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Cistophoric Tetradrachm coin struck under Hadrian (AD 117–138). Aphrodisias mint, after 128 AD. Obv.: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P. Bust of Hadrian Rev.: COS III, Cult statue of Venus (Aphrodite) Aphrodisias standing with outstretched hands, star and crescent on either side of calathus, lion-headed censer behind, Cupid seated left on low cippus before (RIC 516).