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A copper coin of Soli in Cilicia showing a winged gorgoneion and Aphrodite riding a bull Coin Type: Copper AE24 of Soli in Cilicia.
Mint and Date: Soli, 3rd-2nd Century BCE.
Size and Weight: 23mm x 24mm, 11.35g
Obverse: Aegis with winged gorgoneion at the centre, surrounded by a ring of dots.
Reverse: Aphrodite, wearing a mural crown, riding a bull right, holding the horns with both hands. To the right, an owl; above left, a monogram. All surrounded by a ring of dots.
Below, ΣOΛEΩN
Provenance: wcnconline (eBay), January 2010
Ref: GCV 5619; SNG Levante 871; Head page 729; Lindgren 1597.
BW Ref: 001 046 153
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Note: The town was called Soli or Soloi. It was destroyed by Tigranes of Armenia early in the 1st century BCE, and refounded by Pompeius Magnus in 66 BCE as Pompeiopolis. So it is often named as Soli-Pompeiopolis or Soloi-Pompeiopolis.

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