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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Cilicia| > GB87473
Soli-Pompeiopolis, Cilicia, 66 B.C. - 1st Century A.D., Pompey the Great Obverse
|Cilicia|, |Soli-Pompeiopolis,| |Cilicia,| |66| |B.C.| |-| |1st| |Century| |A.D.,| |Pompey| |the| |Great| |Obverse|, Soli, a Rhodian colony, was founded, c. 700 B.C. The word solecism (a grammatical blunder) is derived from Soli - Athenians considered the Soli dialect to be corrupted Attic Greek. Pompey the Great destroyed Soli and refounded the site as Pompeiopolis, c. 66 B.C. Realizing they were driven to crime by desperation, Pompey spared and resettled numerous captured Cilician pirates at Pompeiopolis.
GB87473. Bronze AE 23, cf. SNG BnF 1213 ff., SNG Levante 880 ff., BMC Lycaonia 54, SNG Cop 246, SNGvA 5887 f., RPC I -, (refs with various monograms), aF, Cilicia, Soli-Pompeiopolis (near Mersin, Turkey) mint, weight 9.421g, maximum diameter 22.8mm, die axis 0o, probably struck 66 - 48 B.C.; obverse head of Pompey right; reverse ΠOMΠHIOΠOΛEITΩN, Nike advancing right, wreath in right hand, palm over shoulder in left, monograms in right field; rare; SOLD










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