bpv_284894 - SYRIA - SELEUCIA and PIERIA - ANTIOCHIA Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 50.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 50.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: an 114
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,86 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers à l’usure régulière. Magnifique patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste voilé, tourelé et drapé de Tyché à droite.
Obverse legend : ANTIOCEWN.
Obverse translation : (d’Antioche).
Reverse
Reverse description : Autel (brasero) allumé, orné d’une guirlande ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : ET DIR.
Reverse translation : (an 114).
Commentary
Pour cette émission, nous avons seulement des unités.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUCIA and PIERIA - ANTIOCHIA
(1st century BC - 2nd century AD)
Autonomous civic coinage
Antioch was founded in 300 BC by Seleucus I. It was the capital of the Seleucid kingdom before becoming that of the Roman province of Syria. Syria was annexed by Pompey in 64 BC. Under the Empire, Antioch was one of the most populated cities in the Empire with 200,000 to 300,000 inhabitants. A major metropolis of the Roman East, it was also a city threatened by invasions. Parthians then Sassanids threatened or seized the city. It was very early Christianized like Alexandria. The city, cosmopolitan, was the end point of all the caravans from the East.
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