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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Syria| > RY93575
Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D., Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria, Syria
|Roman| |Syria|, |Trajan,| |25| |January| |98| |-| |8| |or| |9| |August| |117| |A.D.,| |Antioch,| |Seleucis| |and| |Pieria,| |Syria|, In 115 A.D., while Trajan was in Antioch, during his war against Parthia, the city was convulsed by a huge earthquake. The emperor was forced to take shelter in the circus for several days. Trajan and his successor restored the city, but the population was reduced to less than 400,000 inhabitants and many sections of the city were abandoned.
RY93575. Bronze as, RPC Online III 3586 (22 spec.), McAlee 487d, Butcher CRS 201, SNG Cop 199, BMC Galatia 272, Wruck 184, Choice VF, nice portrait, nice desert patina, slightly rough, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 10.624g, maximum diameter 27.4mm, die axis 45o, c. 102 - 114 A.D.; obverse AVTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOC CEB ΓEPM ΔAK, laureate head right; reverse S•C, Δ below, all within laurel wreath with eight bunches of leaves; ex Roma Numismatics e-auction 47 (28 Jun 2018), lot 468; SOLD











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