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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pishpash, post: 2531851, member: 71514&quot;]I bid and won on this before I saw the [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER] (much better) example in another thread.&nbsp; It was cheap so not too bothered about the condition.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]541265[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]541266[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A Philip I AE28 of Commagene, Zeugma. Reverse shows tetrastyle temple of Zeus. Countermarked to left of portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>The&nbsp; capricorn was the symbol of the leg.IIII.</p><p><br /></p><p>Founded by the Seleucid ruler Seleukos I Nikator in 300 BC, as &#039;Seleukeia of Euphrates&#039;, the Hellenistic city of Zeugma grew in prosperity during Roman times since it lay on the trade road which stretched eastwards across Asia to China. Zeugma~s huge wealth was reflected in the homes of its inhabitants. Rich merchants and Roman noblemen and officers vied with one another to adorn their houses with the world~s loveliest mosaics, ceramics, statues, and frescos. Zeugma has been described in international literature as the &#039;second Pompei&#039;. Incorporated into the Roman Empire in 64 BC, The people of Zeugma enjoyed a magnificent lifestyle in their city on the Euphrates until the Sassanid invasion under Shapur in 252 AD, when the city was burnt and razed. This was followed shortly afterwards by a violent earthquake, and a city which had extended over an area of 2100 hectares was buried beneath rubble, and fell into a sleep from which it was not to wake for nearly two thousand years. from the Zeugma website at <a href="http://www.zeugmaweb.com/zeugma/english/engindex.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.zeugmaweb.com/zeugma/english/engindex.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.zeugmaweb.com/zeugma/english/engindex.htm</a> This coin was minted between 247 and 249 AD, just before Zeugma~s destruction.</p><p>(I nicked this from somewhere on Vcoins.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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