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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Mints| > |Antioch| > RP73067
Herennius Etruscus, Early 251 - First Half of June 251 A.D., Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria, Syria
|Antioch|, |Herennius| |Etruscus,| |Early| |251| |-| |First| |Half| |of| |June| |251| |A.D.,| |Antioch,| |Seleucis| |and| |Pieria,| |Syria|, In 256 A.D., about six years after this coin was struck, the Persian King Shapur conquered and plundered Antioch.
RP73067. Billon tetradrachm, McAlee 1155c (S); Prieur 632; Dura Coins 553; cf. BMC Galatia p. 225, 616, aEF, nice portrait, sharp detail, well centered, porous, 3rd officina, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 11.561g, maximum diameter 27.3mm, die axis 180o, as caesar, 249 - early 251 A.D.; obverse EPENNE TPOY ME KY ΔEKIOC KECAP, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, three pellets below; reverse ΔHMAPX EΞOYCIAC (holder of Tribunitian power), eagle standing left on palm-branch, wings spread, head left, wreath in beak, S C (senatus consulto) below; scarce; SOLD




  






REFERENCES|

Huvelin, H. "L'atelier d'Antioche sous Claude II" in NAC XIX (1990), pp. 251-271.
McAlee, R. The Coins of Roman Antioch. (Lancaster, PA, 2007).
Prieur, M. & K. Prieur. The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and their fractions from 57 BC to AD 258. (Lancaster, PA, 2000).
Van Heesch, J. "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)" in Numismatic Chronicle 1993, pp. 65 - 75, pl. 11.

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