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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3056871, member: 19463&quot;]This will be a problem since many coins of cities are sold by people who have no idea which city is which.&nbsp; The most common problem is Antioch but you will not find many that bother stating which one.&nbsp; I would suggest looking at all cities with the right name and researching other examples of that coin to see if it is the one you seek.&nbsp; You really need to be careful when locating towns.&nbsp; The Antioch on the Orontes that is most important in much of the times we study as &#039;ancient&#039; is called Syrian Antioch but the ruins of the city are in modern Turkey.&nbsp;&nbsp; Borders change.&nbsp; It is up to us to keep up.&nbsp;&nbsp; In sad fact, most of us don&#039;t.&nbsp; There are many specialties and I have trouble keeping up with mine let alone all the others.&nbsp; Below is a coin of Laodikeia in Phrygia from the second century BC (too early for you).&nbsp; I have had it for years and never bothered to think about which town of that name it was.&nbsp; To me it was just another Greek coin of no special interest that came my way.&nbsp; I was aware of the 7 churches of Revelation but never thought about this being from a city on that list.&nbsp; Shallow?&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; Overwhelmed?&nbsp; Definitely. </p><p>Aphrodite/Aphrodite holding dove</p><p>Seek and find:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=140722" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=140722" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=140722</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2147987" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2147987" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2147987</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4412304" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4412304" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4412304</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]766078[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If I were picking a coin from this city, I would like to have this one with the seated wolf.&nbsp; Cheap?&nbsp; Maybe not unless it is poor grade? </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2712033" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2712033" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2712033</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When they said the cities were in &#039;Asia&#039; they referred to the Roman Province of Asia not the whole continent as we define it today. Asia then was about a quarter of what we now call Turkey.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Asia_Minor_in_the_2nd_century_AD_-_general_map_-_Roman_provinces_under_Trajan_-_bleached_-_English_legend.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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