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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Macrinus| > RY48308
Macrinus, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D., Beroea, Cyrrhestica, Syria
|Macrinus|, |Macrinus,| |11| |April| |217| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.,| |Beroea,| |Cyrrhestica,| |Syria|, Aleppo is called Halab in Hittite documents of the second millennium B.C. The city opened its gates to Alexander after the Battle of Issus. Seleucus built a new city nearby and named it Beroea. Saint Paul records that his preaching at Beroea was a great success. The city was sacked by the Persians in 540, and captured by the Muslims without a fight in 637.
RY48308. Silver tetradrachm, Prieur 896, gVF, fantastic portrait, toned, Cyrrhestica, Beroea (Allepo, Syria) mint, weight 12.054g, maximum diameter 24.6mm, die axis 225o, 11 Apr 217 - 8 Jun 218 A.D.; obverse AYT K M OΠ-CE MAKPINOC CE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse ΔHMAPX EΞ YΠATOC Π Π (holder of Tribunitian power, consul, father of the country), eagle standing front, wings spread, head left, wreath in beak, B - E flanking winged animal standing facing between eagle's legs; SOLD











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