bpv_1026591 - SYRIA - SELEUCIA and PIERIA - ANTIOCHIA Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: an 104
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers, quasi TTB+. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste voilé, tourelé et drapé de Tyché à droite.
Obverse legend : ANTIOCEWN
Obverse translation : (d'Antioche).
Reverse
Reverse description : Bélier bondissant à droite, tournant la tête à gauche ; devant la tête, croissant devant une étoile à huit rais centré.
Reverse legend : EPI KOUADRATOU// ET DR
Reverse translation : (du légat Quadratus// an 104).
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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