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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3375668, member: 87200&quot;]Titus tet of Alexandria...</p><p><br /></p><p>Titus, A.D. 79-81</p><p><br /></p><p>Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm, 9.3 grams, 12h</p><p><br /></p><p>EGYPT, Alexandria. Year 3 = A.D. 81</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: AVTOK TITOY KAIE</p><p>OVEEPAEIANOY EEB; Laureate head right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: OMO-NOIA; Homonoia seated left, holding out branch, LT in lower left field.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: RPC 2467; Dattari 423</p><p><br /></p><p>From the [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>A little more about Homonoia:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<i>Homonoia</i> was extended under Roman rule in the highly urbanized East as a symbolic mechanism for dealing with intra-city tensions and for linking the sometimes intensely individual eastern city-states. A <i>temple of Homonoia</i> at Aphrodisias in Caria appears as the setting for the wedding of Callirhoe and Dionysios in the first-century CE romance <i>Chaereas and Callirhoe</i>; the temple is objectified in coinage of Aphrodisias that shows the cult statue of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias with those of other cities, under the legend <i>homonoia</i>: &quot;Deities in the coin issues served as symbols that mediated the power within regional alliances, bolstered the prestige of the divine realm in human activity and provided the glue that bound together the political and the cosmic spheres.&quot; In the first century CE, the Greek rhetorician Dio Chrysostom sought in one of his <i>Discourses</i> to establish <i>homonoia </i>between two cities that each claimed the sobriquet &quot;first city&quot;, Nicaea and Nicopolis.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]895350[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]895351[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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