The coinage, a city about 20 km northwest of Hierapolis, first mentioned by Pliny the Elder in the mid-first century B.C., is an example of the penetration of Egyptian cults into Mn. Asia: while busts of Serapis are popular both in Mn. Asia and in Thrace and Lower Mesia, the full-figure depiction of Isis with sistrum and situla is already quite rare.
Obverse: bust of Serapis in a draped robe and with a modius on his head to the right;
Reverse: TPIΠΟ-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ [transcribed as "Tripoleiton" - genetivus = "Tripoli (sc. coin)"] - a legend around Isis standing in a long chiton to the left, holding a sistrum in her raised right hand and a situla (a type of ancient bucket) in her left.
