Monsieur Belley, in his Dissertation on the Coins of Germanicopolis, which he ascribes to Paphlagonia, begins by saying, “No antiquary has yet fixed the first year of the era which the town of Germanicopolis used in its acts and public monuments;” and, I may add, that no antiquary before or since Mons. Belley's time has suspected that there existed a Coin of Germanicopolis seventy-six years before those of Severus, which bear the dates of 200–211, 214, 215. Sixteen of these have come to hand, whilst the one exhibited above, with the name of Adriane GermanicopolitΩΝ upon it, has never yet been published. Hadrian's reign began in 117 A. D. and Severus's in 193 of the same era.