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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1230027, member: 5739&quot;]Very interesting stuff Bart! Thank you, I had never seen a picture of Mt. Argaeus or thought to look it up...... I see the resemblence... you notice on both the coins, there looks like a cave or something in the center of the mountain.... I still don&#039;t know what that is. I like how the Caracalla one has a Crescent Moon in the sky, kinda weakly struck, but it&#039;s there. Speaking of the the coins of the mountain though, I saw recently a didrachm for sale from Caesarea of Nerva, and the mountain was very skinny and tall.... the seller even had it mislabelled as being a club of Hercules.....</p><p>I can also understand and feel the same about your admiration for the Romans striking these and other coins in Greek so that it could be understood by more people, of course I imagine it was good propaganda too, since now your &#039;Hellenized population&#039; can read the titles of &#039;Autocraticus Caeser&#039; et cetera about the Emperor.... plus using local landmarks and dieties on the reverses of the coins would help to gain the trust of the people I would think...... speculation though, all of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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