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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Cappadocia| > RP93136
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D., Caesarea, Cappadocia
|Cappadocia|, |Commodus,| |March| |or| |April| |177| |-| |31| |December| |192| |A.D.,| |Caesarea,| |Cappadocia|, Mount Erciyes (Argaios to the Greeks, Argaeus to the Romans) is a massive stratovolcano 25 km to the south of Kayseri (ancient Caesarea) in Turkey. The highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching 3,916 meters (12,848 ft). It may have erupted as recently as 253 B.C., as may be depicted on Roman era coins. Strabo wrote that the summit was never free from snow and that those few who ascended it reported seeing both the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south in days with a clear sky.
RP93136. Bronze AE 29, Henseler 316d; RPC Online IV.3 T6889 (5 specs.); Sydenham 383; SNG Cop VII 255; SNG Lewis 1718; BMC Galatia p. 73, 218 corr. (Γ only in ex.), F, dark green patina, earthen deposits, bumps and marks, legends weak, Cappadocia, Caesarea (Kayseri, Turkey) mint, weight 13.470g, maximum diameter 28.6mm, die axis 180o, 191 - 192 A.D.; obverse A K M AV KOMOΔOC ANTΩNINOC, laureate head right; reverse MHTPOΠOΛ - KAICAPEIAC, agalma of Mount Argaeus placed on an altar, ET inscribed on altar, ΓI (year 13) in exergue; from the Errett Bishop Collection; rare; SOLD











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