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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8190710, member: 128351"][ATTACH=full]1433954[/ATTACH]A Liberalitas VI sestertius... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433955[/ATTACH] </p><p>An AE coin (= as) of Gadara, today Umm Qays in Jordan, overlooking the Tiberias lake. On reverse, showing the city's Tyche standing in her niche, the legend ΓΑΔΑΡ - ЄΚC (year 225 of the city's era = 161/2 AD). </p><p>Gadara was a Greek city mentioned in the Gospels. In the middle of a land populated by Jews, Syrians (or Cananaeans) and Arabs, for whom the pork was taboo, the Gadarenes were Greeks with their own laws and they raised pigs. Jesus came there one day and exorcized a poor man in the city's outskirts, the daemons left him and passed to a pigs herd nearby, who like lemmings immediately rushed and dived into the lake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8190710, member: 128351"][ATTACH=full]1433954[/ATTACH]A Liberalitas VI sestertius... [ATTACH=full]1433955[/ATTACH] An AE coin (= as) of Gadara, today Umm Qays in Jordan, overlooking the Tiberias lake. On reverse, showing the city's Tyche standing in her niche, the legend ΓΑΔΑΡ - ЄΚC (year 225 of the city's era = 161/2 AD). Gadara was a Greek city mentioned in the Gospels. In the middle of a land populated by Jews, Syrians (or Cananaeans) and Arabs, for whom the pork was taboo, the Gadarenes were Greeks with their own laws and they raised pigs. Jesus came there one day and exorcized a poor man in the city's outskirts, the daemons left him and passed to a pigs herd nearby, who like lemmings immediately rushed and dived into the lake.[/QUOTE]
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