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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 5149766, member: 75496&quot;]Thanks for the comments and posts containing positive feedback, interesting information and related coins!&nbsp; It was fun to see other coin types from Antioch that I don’t recall viewing before.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER], [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER], and [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER], those interesting third century coins of Tyche of Antioch in a temple show that this specific imagery persisted for several centuries. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another even later example is the Tyche of Antioch on [USER=1969]@david[/USER]@PCC’s coin from 312 AD.&nbsp; [USER=80556]@David@PCC[/USER], I also appreciated seeing the other Antioch coin minted so shortly after the city’s founding. With 90 coins from Antioch in your collection to choose from, those were two very nice ones to share! </p><p><br /></p><p>Good examples of Tyche reverses were posted by [USER=93672]@singig[/USER], [USER=99412]@PeteB[/USER], and [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] .&nbsp;&nbsp; [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER], I enjoyed examining the detail on Tyche’s headdress on your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], thanks for introducing to the thread a coin from Antioch by Niger and with Minerva.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=104887]@Broucheion[/USER], thanks for adding a second Antioch coin from the Seleucid period to the post.&nbsp; It’s good to have the Seleucid Kingdom represented here!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=99412]@PeteB[/USER], at Antioch was one of the earliest Christian congregations comprised of men and women with Jewish <i>and </i>Gentile backgrounds.&nbsp; Peter, in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost following Christ’s death and resurrection, delivered the inaugural gospel sermon in which he outlined the keys to entering the kingdom under the new covenant.&nbsp; About 3,000 convicted believers, many of whom had come to Jerusalem from other countries for Pentecost, responded to his call to repent and be baptized.&nbsp; The Lord added these and later converts to the number of those who were being saved, forming the first church (translated from ‘ekklesia’ – ‘called out’) in Jerusalem.&nbsp; This is recorded in Acts 2.&nbsp; In Acts 10, Peter is also the one to first share the good news with Gentiles when he goes from Joppa to Caesarea to meet with a Roman centurion named Cornelius.&nbsp; In Acts 11:19-26, we read that some of the Christians who had left Jerusalem under persecution came to Antioch, and that men of Cyprus and Cyrene came to Antioch and preached the gospel to Greeks as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; The church at Jerusalem sent Barnabas to the congregation in Antioch and he was the one who went to Tarsus and brought Paul there.&nbsp; These two met with the church at Antioch for a year teaching many, and the disciples were first called Christians there.&nbsp; In the early church, there were some issues that had to be worked through between those with Jewish and Gentile backgrounds.&nbsp; Galatians 2 records a visit by Peter (Cephas) to Antioch that highlighted some of the friction that existed at times between the Jewish and Gentile converts, largely over elements of the first covenant that were not required under the new covenant such as physical circumcision and regulations related to foods.&nbsp;&nbsp; Paul and Barnabas traveled to the church in Jerusalem to consult with apostles and elders there on the matter (Acts 15).</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER] and [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] for posting their very nice examples of the OP coin type that they own or formerly owned (you sold a beauty, [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER]!).&nbsp;&nbsp; I’m glad you liked the quotes from ancient writings on Orontes and the map.&nbsp;&nbsp; The topo map helped me picture the description of the river coursing through this terrain.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER], thanks also for the book recommendation.&nbsp; I’m going to further investigate it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER], I saw that you received an answer to your question on dating in another thread.&nbsp;&nbsp; I’ll only add a link to an article that you might find of interest that is on the Forvm Ancient Coins site: <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Ancient%20Coin%20Dates" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Ancient%20Coin%20Dates" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Ancient Coin Dates</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For those in the US celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, I hope that you have an enjoyable and restful holiday![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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