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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8186567, member: 128351&quot;]I have no coin from Ancyra (either in Galatia or Phrygia)</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Ancyra, in Galatia, is an old city dating back to the Bronze Age. In Roman times there was a local legend saying the city had been founded by the famous king Midas, the king who had the dangerous power of turning everything he touched into gold. But it&#039;s a mere legend, the city was much older. In the 3rd c. BC it has been occupied by Gauls, a branch of the nomadic Tectosage tribe, while the other branch settled in Tolosa (Toulouse, South France). According to St Jerome there were still people in Galatia, around Ancyra, speaking some kind of Celtic tongue in the 4th c. AD. </p><p>Ancyra is now Ankara, the capital of Turkey. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no coins of Ancyra/Ankara. When I visited the old citadel in the centre of Ankara, I noticed just at the gate a stone re-used by medieval builders which was covered with Latin writing. I abandoned my fellow-tourists for half an hour, trying to decipher the stone. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432282[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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