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Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria, Syria
| 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. Antioch was renamed Theoupolis after it was nearly destroyed by an earthquake on 29 November 528. 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. |  |
RY05706. Billon tetradrachm, McAlee 693, Bellinger Syrian 37, Prieur 242, Choice aEF, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 13.14g, maximum diameter 26.6mm, die axis 0o, 215 - 217 A.D.; obverse AYT•K•M•ANT•-•ANTONEINOC ••CEB, laureate bust right, bare shoulder from behind; reverse ΔHMAPX•EΞ•YΠATOC•TO•Δ (holder of Tribunitian power, consul for the 4th time), eagle standing facing, head right, wings open, wreath in beak, six-pointed star over cornucopia between legs; SOLD
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