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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 4255903, member: 111387&quot;]The majority of my batch of Seleukid coinage was minted in Antioch.&nbsp; However, a few other coins also came in the mix.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of which was this one, also portraying Caps of the Dioskouri.&nbsp; It was minted in Dioskourias, Kolchis.&nbsp; I would like to think that the lot that I received may have come from the same found hoard.&nbsp; If so, it would be interesting to know how this one made it from the Eastern shores of the Black Sea down to around the area of Antioch on the Orontes.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://srv2.imgonline.com.ua/result_img/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-7wZOxhMSwUpv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Colchis, Dioscourias 2nd Century BC, BMC 1021</p><p>Caps of the Dioscuri surmounted by stars</p><p>Legend either side of thyrsos</p><p>ΔΙ-ΟΣ / ΚΟΥ-ΡΙΑ / Δ-ΟΥ</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The Milesian Greek colony of Dioscurias was named for the Dioscuri, the twins of myth, Castor and Pollux. Commerce between Greece and the indigenous tribes was bustling in the city, wares were imported from many parts of Greece, and local salt and Caucasian timber, linen, and hemp were exported. It was also a center of slave trade. The multitude of languages spoken in its bazaars was remarkable. Under Augustus, the city assumed the name of Sebastopolis, but its prosperity was in the past. The Black Sea had continuously encroached upon the city and in the 1st century Pliny the Elder described it as nearly deserted. The towers and walls of Sebastopolis are still underwater today. In 542, the Romans evacuated the remaining residents and demolished its citadel to prevent it from being captured by the Sassanids. In 565, Justinian I restored the fort and Sebastopolis remained a Byzantine stronghold until it was sacked by the Arab conqueror Marwan II in 736.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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