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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Secessionist Empires| > |Quietus| > SH70589
Quietus, Fall or Winter 260 - Late 261 A.D.
|Quietus|, |Quietus,| |Fall| |or| |Winter| |260| |-| |Late| |261| |A.D.|, Samosata was the walled capital of the Commagene Kingdom founded in 69 B.C. The town remained a regional center under Rome, and until the Ottoman period. The old town of Samsat and all its history were flooded behind the Atatürk Dam in 1989. The new town was built beside the new waterline by the government to house the displaced residents.
SH70589. Billon antoninianus, Göbl MIR 1728n, RSC IV 4a, RIC V-2 3 (R2), SRCV III 10819, Hunter IV - (p. lxxvi), VF, porous, uncertain Syrian mint, weight 3.628g, maximum diameter 22.8mm, die axis 180o, obverse IMP C FVL QVIETVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse APOLINI CONSERVA (to Apollo the protector), Apollo standing left, radiate, nude but for cloak on shoulders and draped behind, branch downward in right, left rests on grounded lyre, star upper left; rare; SOLD











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