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| The ruins of Antioch on the Orontes lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century B.C. by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch's geographic, military and economic location, particularly the spice trade, the Silk Road, the Persian Royal Road, benefited its occupants, and eventually it rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East and as the main center of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Antioch is called "the cradle of Christianity," for the pivotal early role it played in the emergence of the faith. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Its residents are known as Antiochenes. Once a great metropolis of half a million people, it declined to insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes and a change in trade routes following the Mongol conquests, which then no longer passed through Antioch from the far east. |  |
France, Louis XIV the Sun King, 1643 - 1715
Under Louis XIV, the Sun King, France reached the apogee of its power. His reign began at age four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days; one of the longest of any European monarch. He fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis converted a hunting lodge into the spectacular Palace of Versailles, and by compelling the noble elite to inhabit his lavish palace, he pacified the aristocracy and eliminated the remnants of feudalism. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.MA113688. Copper liard de France, Duplessy 1588, Ciani 2012, Gadoury 80, SCWC KM 192.9, Droulers 412 , F/gF, weight 4.153 g, maximum diameter 23.3 mm, die axis 180o, Limoges mint, 1656; obverse •L• XIIII• ROY• DE• FR• ET• DE• NA• 1656• (Louis XIV, by the grace of God, king of France and Navarre), crowned, draped, and armored juvenile bust of Louis XIV; reverse •LIARD• / •DE• / •FRANCE• in three lines, three lis flanking and below I (Limoges mintmark) below; SOLD
Germanicus, b. 24 May 15 B.C. - d. 10 Oct 19 A.D., Apameia ad Maeandrum, Phrygia
| Apameia ad Meandrum (or Apamea Cibotus) was an ancient city founded in the 3rd century B.C. by Antiochus I Soter, who named it after his mother Apama. It was in Hellenistic Phrygia, but became part of the Roman province of Pisidia. Apamea is mentioned in the Talmud (Ber. 62a, Niddah, 30b and Yeb. 115b). Christianity was very likely established early in the city. Saint Paul probably visited the place when he went throughout Phrygia. The mid third century A.D. coins of Apamea Kibotos with scenes of Noah and his ark are among the earliest biblical scenes in Roman art. Apamea continued to be a prosperous town under the Roman Empire. Its decline began with the local disorganization of the empire in the 3rd century and when trade routes were diverted to Constantinople. Although a bishopric, it was not an important military or commercial center in Byzantine times. Its ruin was completed by an earthquake. |  |
Maximinus II Daia, May 310 - 30 April 313 A.D.
The meaning of the CMH ligature, used at Nicomedia and Cyzicus, is uncertain but it may be a mark of value indicating 48 coins per pound of bronze.RT113917. Billon follis (large), Hunter V 24 (also 2nd officina), RIC VI Nicomedia 55, SRCV IV 14722, Cohen VII 45, VF. well centered, dark patina, scratches, rev. strike weak, weight 6.761 g, maximum diameter 26.6 mm, die axis 180o, 2nd officina, Nicomedia (Izmit, Turkey) mint, as caesar, 308 - 310 A.D.; obverse GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAES, laureate head right; reverse GENIO CAESARIS (to the guardian spirit of the prince) CMH (CMH ligate), Genius standing slightly left, head left, nude but for chlamys over shoulders and left arm, kalathos on head, pouring libations from patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, SMNB in exergue; SOLD
Roman Republic, c. 206 - 194 B.C.
Sextans, a Roman coin, which is marked sometimes on the obverse, sometimes on the reverse, or on both sides with two globules, denoting it to be the sixth part of the as, or two ounces (uncia) because the as was divided into twelve. It has for its types the head of Mercury and the prow of a ship. Some of these pieces bear the names of Roman moneyers.MA114146. Copper Sextans, weight 2.196 g, maximum diameter 15.9 mm, die axis 0o, c. 206 - 194 B.C.; obverse head of Mercury right. wearing winged petasus, two pellets above; reverse prow of galley right, ROMA above, uncertain symbol right, two pellets below; SOLD
Carthage, Zeugitana, North Africa, c. 310 - 280 B.C.
At the height of its prominence, Carthage's influence extended over most of the western Mediterranean. Rivalry with Rome led to a series of conflicts, the Punic Wars. The Third Punic War ended in the complete destruction of the city, annexation by Rome of all Carthaginian territory, and the death or enslavement of the entire Carthaginian population.MA113706. Bronze AE 15, cf. HGC 2 1675, weight 2.367 g, maximum diameter 15.4 mm, die axis 90o, Carthage or Sicilian mint, c. 310 - 280 B.C.; obverse head of Tanit left wearing wreath of grain and pendant necklace; reverse horse standing right, date palm tree behind; SOLD
Byzantine Empire, Justin II, 15 November 565 - 5 October 578 A.D.
Under Justinian Nicomedia was extended with new public buildings. Situated on the roads leading to the capital, the city remained a major military center, playing an important role in the Byzantine campaigns against the Caliphate.MA112945. Bronze follis, DOC I 103b, Wroth BMC 159, Tolstoi 133, Ratto 865, Hahn MIB 46b, Morrisson BnF 5/Ni/AE/33, SBCV 369, Sommer 5.27 , F/VF, rev. double strike, weight 14.264 g, maximum diameter 29.2 mm, die axis 180o, 2nd officina, Nicomedia (Izmit, Turkey) mint, 577 - 578 A.D.; obverse D N IVSTINVS P P AV, Justin II seated on left and Sophia seated on right, both nimbate and facing on double throne, he holds a globus cruciger, she holds a cruciform scepter, no cross above center; reverse large M (40 nummi) between ANNO and X/II/I (regnal year 13), cross above, B (2nd officina) below, NIKO in exergue; SOLD
Amisos, Pontos, c. 85 - 65 B.C.
Amisos was settled c. 760 - 750 B.C. by people from Miletus, who established a flourishing trade relationship with the ancient peoples of Anatolia. Amisos came under the rule of the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire, and then the Kingdom of Pontus. The Romans took control in 47 B.C. and Amisos remained within the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome. In 1200, the city was captured by the Seljuks, to be later taken over by the Ilhanlilar. Amisos today is Samsun, a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey.MA113900. Bronze AE 21, SNG BM 1227; SNG Stancomb 706; SNGvA 56; BMC Pontus p. 15, 27; HGC 7 245; SNG Cop 135 var. (star right), VF, dark green patina, tight flan, earthen deposits, scratches, light corrosion, rev. double struck, weight 8.391 g, maximum diameter 20.5 mm, die axis 0o, Amisos (Samsun, Turkey) mint, c. 85 - 65 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse AMIΣOY, eagle standing half left on thunderbolt, head turned back right, wings open, monogram left; ex Pandora Numismatics auction 2 (27 Aug 2023), lot 81; SOLD
Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II of Macedonia, 359 - 336 B.C.
Philip II became the ruler of all Greece when he defeated the Athenians at the Battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. Philip personally selected the design of his coins. His horse, on the reverse of this coin, won a race in the Olympic Games in 356 B.C., the year his son Alexander the Great was born.MA114236. Bronze AE 17, cf. SNG ANS 841 ff., SNG Cop 581 ff. (various control symbols), weight 5.777 g, maximum diameter 17.3 mm, die axis 90o, Macedonian mint, 359 - 336 B.C.; obverse head of Apollo right, wearing taenia; reverse ΦIΛIΠΠOY, nude male youth on horse pacing right, uncertain control symbol under horse's belly, convex field; SOLD
Kingdom of Commagene, Mithradates I Kallinikos, 96 - 70 B.C.
| The Kingdom of Commagene was an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period, located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which served as its capital. The Iron Age name of Samosata, Kummuh, probably gives its name to Commagene. Commagene has been characterized as a "buffer state" between Armenia, Parthia, Syria, and Rome; culturally, it seems to have been correspondingly mixed. The kings of the Kingdom of Commagene claimed descent from Orontes with Darius I of Persia as their ancestor, by his marriage to Rodogoune, daughter of Artaxerxes II who had a family descent from king Darius I. The territory of Commagene corresponds roughly to the modern Turkish provinces of Adiyaman and northern Antep. |  |
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