Greek coins, mainly from Asia Minor - The Dr. Kaya Sayar Collection, Part II
Æs, 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.; 2,16 g.
Tychekopf r. mit Mauerkrone//Eberprotome r.
SNG France 3, -; v. Aulock, Pisidien 755 ff. Sehr schönExemplar der Auktion Lanz 138, München 2007, Nr. 434.
Münzen von Keraia bzw. der Keraitai sind selten, weil die Stadt bei der Anlage der Veteranenkolonie Kremna durch Kaiser Augustus in die neue Siedlung integriert wurde und aufhörte, eigene Münzen zu prägen. St. Mitchell, Three Cities in Pisidia, AS 44, 1994, 129-148, bes. 136: "Pisidia itself offers an almost exact parallel in the fate of Keraitai, a large and flourishing Hellenistic Pisidian community, which was absorbed by the Augustan colony of Cremna. There, the two communities minted coins together in the first century B.C., but Keraitai lost its independence thereafter. Of course, neither in that case nor in that of Cretopolis was this the end of the settlement.".
Coins from Keraia, or rather the Keraitai, are rare because the city ceased to mint its own coins when it was integrated into the new settlement called Cremna that was established by Emperor Augustus for the veterans of his army.
St. Mitchell, Three Cities in Pisidia, AS 44, 1994, 129-148, spec. 136: “Pisidia itself offers an almost exact parallel in the fate of Keraitai, a large and flourishing Hellenistic Pisidian community, which was absorbed by the Augustan colony of Cremna. There, the two communities minted coins together in the first century B.C., but Keraitai lost its independence thereafter. Of course, neither in that case nor in that of Cretopolis was this the end of the settlement.”