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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Phoenicia| > RP66219
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Byblos, Phoenicia
|Roman| |Phoenicia|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.,| |Byblos,| |Phoenicia|, Astarte, a Phoenician fertility and war goddess, was the principal deity of the port city of Sidon. Other major centers of Astarte's worship were Tyre and Byblos, and she was worshiped as far west as Carthage, Sicily, Sardinia and Cyprus. The Greeks associated her with Aphrodite. Byblos produced papyrus and our word bible was derived from the name of this city.
RP66219. Bronze AE 24, BMC Phoenicia p. 101, 29 ff.; SNG Cop 141; Rouvier IV p. 52, 692, aF, Byblos (Jbail, Lebanon) mint, weight 9.633g, maximum diameter 23.7mm, die axis 180o, obverse AY K M AYP CEOYH ANTΩNEINOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse IEPAC BYBΛOY, temple of two columns surmounted by arch of shell pattern, containing Astarte standing right, foot on prow, crowned by Nike standing on column; SOLD



  






OBVERSE| LEGENDS|

ANTONINVSAVGVSTV
ANTONINVSAVGVSTVS
ANTONINVSPIVSAVG
ANTONINVSPIVSAVGBRIT
ANTONINVSPIVSAVGGERM
ANTONINVSPIVSFELAVG (ALSO USED BY ELAGABALUS)
DIVOANTONINOMAGNO
IMPCAEMAVRANTAVGPTRP
IMPCAESMAVRELANTONINVSAVG
IMPANTONINETGETACAESAVGFIL
IMPCMAVRANTONAVGPTRP
IMPCMAVRANTONINVSAVG
IMPCMAVRANTONAVGPTRP
IMPCMAVRANTONINVSAVG
IMPCMAVRANTONINVSPONTAVG
IMPMAVRANTONINVSPIVSAVGPMTRPXIII
MAVRANTCAESPONTIF
MAVRANTONCAESPONTIF
MAVRANTONINVSCAES
MAVRELANTONINVSPIVSAVG
MAVRELANTONINVSPIVSAVGBRIT
MAVRELANTONINVSPIVSAVGGERM

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