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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Syria| > RY86403
Leucas-Claudia (Balanea), Seleucis and Pieria, Syria, c. 45 - 150 A.D.
|Roman| |Syria|, |Leucas-Claudia| |(Balanea),| |Seleucis| |and| |Pieria,| |Syria,| |c.| |45| |-| |150| |A.D.|, This type is so rare that RPC is uncertain of the complete legends and questions if the standing god has his foot on a prow.

Baniyas (ancient Balaneais, Balanaea or Balanea, also called Leucas or Leucas-Claudia) is in northwestern Syria, 55 km south of Latakia (ancient Laodicea) and 35 km north of Tartous (ancient Tortosa). It was founded as a colony of Aradus. In Phoenician and Hellenistic times, it was an important seaport. On a nearby hill stands the Crusader castle of Margat (Qalaat el-Marqab), a huge Knights Hospitaller fortress built with black basalt stone.
RY86403. Brass AE 17, RPC I 4465A (2 specimens); de Saulcy 21, 3, VF, some flatness of high points, porosity, slightly off center on a tight flan; the best of the three specimens known to Forum, Leucas-Claudia (Baniyas, Syria) mint, weight 4.142g, maximum diameter 17.3mm, die axis 45o, c. 45 - 150 A.D.; obverse TWN KAI KΛAYΔIAIWN, male god standing facing, wearing tiara, long scepter vertical in right hand, left foot on small prow; reverse ΛYKAΔIWN, upper part of river god Chrysoroas swimming right; extremely rare; SOLD











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