bgr_877224 - CILICIA - SOLOI Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 100-30
Mint name / Town : Soloi, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 8,17 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Joli portrait d’Hélios. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête radiée d’Hélios à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna assise à gauche tenant une Niké et accoudée à son bouclier.
Reverse legend : SOLEWN.
Reverse translation : (de Soloi).
Commentary
Contremarque au droit.
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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