Cremna



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CREMNA (Pisidiae -- Asia Minor) colonia, now called Kebrinaz, in Anatolia. -- The coins of this city are Latin imperial in brass, dedicated to Caracalla, Geta, Elagabalus, Etruscilla, and Tranquillina. Their legends are COL. CR. PRO. P. (Colonia Cremna Provinciae Pisidiae) -- COL. IVL. AVG. FR. CREMNA (Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Cremna). -- The accompanying types are a Cupid standing, drawing a bow -- and a legionary eagle between two military ensigns -- also Bacchus and Mercury, with their respective attributes. -- There is a first brass of great rarity and elegance, struck at Cremna, in honour of Etruscilla, wife of Trajan Decius, which has for its reverse type the radiated head of Decius between that of Herennius and Hostilianus, his two sons, above which is an eagle with wings spread. -- Engraved in Vaillant, ii. 202.


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