bgr_877227 - CILICIA - SOLOI Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 100-66
Mint name / Town : Soloi, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire légèrement décentré. Belle égide. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Grande égide timbrée d’une tête de Méduse de trois quarts de face à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aphrodite tourelée et drapée chevauchant un taureau galopant à droite, tenant les cornes de l’animal.
Reverse legend : SOLEWN/ (HD)/ (PD)
Reverse translation : (de Soloi).
Historical background
CILICIA - SOLOI
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Soloi was a very important city located on the Cilician coast not far from Zepyrion and Tarsus between Cilicia Trachea and Cilicia Pedias was perhaps founded at the instigation of the Rhodians, but the city also seems to have links with Athens. The city was destroyed by Tigranes I, King of Armenia after 83 BC. The city was refounded under the name of Pompeiopolis by Pompey in 66 BC..
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