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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Syria| > RY87494
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and Pieria
|Roman| |Syria|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.,| |Laodicea| |ad| |Mare,| |Seleucis| |and| |Pieria|, Laodicea ad Mar was founded by Seleukos Nikator. The site was determined after an eagle snatched a piece of flesh from an altar where Seleukos was sacrificing. The exact site was indicated when he slew a boar following the eagle's flight. Perhaps the eagle on this reverse refers to the city's founding myth, though the ancients did not need a special reason to depict an eagle, the companion of Zeus.
RY87494. Silver tetradrachm, Prieur 1174 (same obv. die); Bellinger 66 & pl. 6, 1 (same obv. die); McAlee Severan, group 5, 37; BMC Galatia -; SNG Cop -, VF, well centered, dark patina, bumps and marks, Laodicea ad Mare (Latakia, Syria) mint, weight 11.872g, maximum diameter 28.2mm, die axis 0o, 212 - 213 A.D.; obverse AVT KAI ANTΩNEINOC CE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse ΔHMAPX EΞVΠATOC TO Γ (holder of Tribunitian power, consul for the 3rd time), eagle standing facing on ground line, wings spread, head left holding wreath in beak, star between legs; ex CNG auction 426 (8 Aug 2018), lot 358; SOLD











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