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<p>[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 4694265, member: 87404"]Nice job! Laodicea as Mare is known for their large and ornamental city goddess/tyche reverses. AP usually has the largest decorative turrets (yes, actual city walls and towers... on her head!). </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's mine from Trajan...</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190103_201100361.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><font size="3"><b>Trajan, Ruled 98-117 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE25, Struck 116/117 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС ΑΡΙСΤ ΚΑΙС СΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚ ΠΑΡ, laureate head of Trajan right with drapery on left shoulder.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: ΙΟΥΛΙΕωΝ ΤωΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕωΝ ΓΞΡ, turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right, date M/KO (Caesarean year 163) before.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RPC III 3797-8</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 25mm, 9.8g</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>And here is my Agathokles...</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/collagemaker_20190727_181152062.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><font size="3"><b>Syracuse, Sicily</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Agathokles, Ruled 317-289 BC</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE Trias, Struck circa 304-289 BC</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: ΣΩTEIPA, draped bust of Artemis Soteira (‘Artemis the Savior’) right, quiver over shoulder..</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: AΓAΘOKΛEOΣ / BAΣILEOΣ, winged thunderbolt.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: CNS 138; BAR Issue 20; HGC 2, 1537</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 22mm, 9.5g</font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Notes: Agathokles seized power in Syracuse in 317 BC. In 310, the tyrant invades North Africa and attacks Carthage, but he is beaten in 307 and must retreat to Sicily. Peace, signed the following year with the hereditary enemy, consecrated the hegemony of Agathokles over all Sicily, taking the title of king in 305 BC. He dies in 289 BC leading to the formation of the Fourth Democracy on Sicily.</i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 4694265, member: 87404"]Nice job! Laodicea as Mare is known for their large and ornamental city goddess/tyche reverses. AP usually has the largest decorative turrets (yes, actual city walls and towers... on her head!). Here's mine from Trajan... [IMG]https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190103_201100361.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=3][B]Trajan, Ruled 98-117 AD AE25, Struck 116/117 AD Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare[/B] Obverse: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС ΑΡΙСΤ ΚΑΙС СΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚ ΠΑΡ, laureate head of Trajan right with drapery on left shoulder. Reverse: ΙΟΥΛΙΕωΝ ΤωΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕωΝ ΓΞΡ, turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right, date M/KO (Caesarean year 163) before. References: RPC III 3797-8 Size: 25mm, 9.8g [/SIZE] And here is my Agathokles... [IMG]https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/collagemaker_20190727_181152062.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=3][B]Syracuse, Sicily Agathokles, Ruled 317-289 BC AE Trias, Struck circa 304-289 BC[/B] Obverse: ΣΩTEIPA, draped bust of Artemis Soteira (‘Artemis the Savior’) right, quiver over shoulder.. Reverse: AΓAΘOKΛEOΣ / BAΣILEOΣ, winged thunderbolt. References: CNS 138; BAR Issue 20; HGC 2, 1537 Size: 22mm, 9.5g [I]Notes: Agathokles seized power in Syracuse in 317 BC. In 310, the tyrant invades North Africa and attacks Carthage, but he is beaten in 307 and must retreat to Sicily. Peace, signed the following year with the hereditary enemy, consecrated the hegemony of Agathokles over all Sicily, taking the title of king in 305 BC. He dies in 289 BC leading to the formation of the Fourth Democracy on Sicily.[/I][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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