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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 4472660, member: 75496&quot;][USER=38412]@7Calbrey[/USER], Nice Bostra coin, and thread on the Decapolis.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER], a Biblical focus in collecting is why I have this coin of the Decapolis.&nbsp; Below, I&#039;ve listed some connections that I found interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112632[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112633[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gadara, Decapolis. Titus as Caesar (69-79 AD). AE (17 mm, 4.10 g, 12 h). TITOΣ KAIΣAP; Laureate head of Titus right / Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right; to left, ΓΑΔΑPA (Gadara); to right, date: L ZΛP (year 137 = 73/4 AD). Spijkerman 29.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gadara was a Transjordanian city of the Decapolis. References to “the country” (ἡ χώρα), or “region,” of the Gadarenes-Gerasenes are found in the synoptic gospels (Mt 5:28; Mk 5:1, &amp; Lk 8:26,37).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Fall of Masada occurred in 73/4 AD, the same timeframe in which this coin was struck. The siege was led by Lucius Flavius Silva, the Roman governor of Iudaea who commanded the Roman legion X Fretensis. Just a few years earlier, in 70 AD, Titus destroyed the Second Temple and much of Jerusalem after his father Vespasian left him in charge of continuing the suppression of the Jewish rebellion that began in 66 AD.&nbsp; In 69 AD, in midst of Roman civil unrest that followed Nero’s suicide in 68 AD, Vespasian turned his attention to battle Vitellius for imperial power.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2019, I enjoyed visiting Jerusalem, Masada, and the extensive ruins of Scythopolis, the only city of the Decapolis that was on the western side of the Jordan River (and [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER], I also rode a camel- I like the reverse on the coin you posted!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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