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Caesarea Ad Libanum

Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate.CAESAREA ad Libanum (Phoeniciae) colonia, formerly Arca, now Aresce, Archis, Arka. - The imperial coins of this city are in Greek brass of Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius, and in Latin brass of Elagabalus, and Alexander Severus. - Its era that of the Seleicidae, commencing in the year 442 of the foundation of Rome, 312 before the Christian era. - ionnet thus describes one of the Latin coins extant of this colony: -
     Elagabalus. - ... ANTONINVS. Head laureated.
     Rev. - COL: CESARIA (sic). LIB. ALPH.
A temple, of which the dome is supported by two Hermes. Below is the half-length figure of a female veiled, the head drooping towards the shoulder, on which is a crescent; on one side the Sun, on the other the Moon; t the right a sceptre.
     Severus Alexander. - A coin  dedicatec to this emperor has the figure of Astarte in a temple.   
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Caesarea Ad Libanum

Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate.CAESAREA ad Libanum (Phoeniciae) colonia, formerly Arca, now Aresce, Archis, Arka. - The imperial coins of this city are in Greek brass of Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius, and in Latin brass of Elagabalus, and Alexander Severus. - Its era that of the Seleicidae, commencing in the year 442 of the foundation of Rome, 312 before the Christian era. - ionnet thus describes one of the Latin coins extant of this colony: -
     Elagabalus. - ... ANTONINVS. Head laureated.
     Rev. - COL: CESARIA (sic). LIB. ALPH.
A temple, of which the dome is supported by two Hermes. Below is the half-length figure of a female veiled, the head drooping towards the shoulder, on which is a crescent; on one side the Sun, on the other the Moon; t the right a sceptre.
     Severus Alexander. - A coin  dedicatec to this emperor has the figure of Astarte in a temple.   
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