Well I'm relieved to think you hear that and I appreciate your opinion! The coin bears a Theoupolis
mint mark, so it's interesting that in a time of such misery in
Antioch when rubble and bodies were
still being hauled away from the earthquakes, someone at the
mint was creating unusually beautiful coins. Perhaps it was even a kind of coping mechanism to deal with the ugliness around him. We'll never know!
