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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2804947, member: 57495"]Fun!</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm going to try to sneak what I have from cities not already shown before [USER=71599]@ancientone[/USER] completely crushes this thread <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. In all seriousness, I'm really looking forward to all the contributions in this thread. IMHO, this is a really excellent collecting theme and I'm surprised that we don't have more people collecting by provincial mints. It's only 600 or so different, occasionally ultra-rare, cities <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p> </p><p><b>Augusta</b>, in Cilicia[ATTACH=full]654970[/ATTACH]<b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>Very Rare (only one specimen cited by Karbach). AE19. 4.77g, 19.3mm. CILICIA, <b>Augusta</b>, 183/184 AD (Year 164). Karbach, <i>Augusta </i>p.54, 81 (same obv die); RPC Online Temp 6170 (as Marcus Aurelius, one example cited). O: Laureate head of Commodus right, AV KOMODO [...]. R: AVGOVSTN(sic) ETOY EPD, horse standing right, head turned left; tree to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>The city of Augusta (cited located near Adana in modern day Turkey) was founded in AD 20 on the eastern Cilician plains and named after Livia, widow of Augustus. It was built in a loop of the river Seyhan between some low hills, and its ruins were only discovered in 1955. Unfortunately, the site was never excavated as that same year, the Seyhan Dam was completed and entire cite disappeared beneath its waters. </p><p><br /></p><p>The artificial Lake Seyhan and its dam are now a popular tourist and local attraction.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/seyhan-dam-lake-jpg.378980/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2804947, member: 57495"]Fun! I'm going to try to sneak what I have from cities not already shown before [USER=71599]@ancientone[/USER] completely crushes this thread :D. In all seriousness, I'm really looking forward to all the contributions in this thread. IMHO, this is a really excellent collecting theme and I'm surprised that we don't have more people collecting by provincial mints. It's only 600 or so different, occasionally ultra-rare, cities :wideyed:. [B]Augusta[/B], in Cilicia[ATTACH=full]654970[/ATTACH][B]COMMODUS[/B] Very Rare (only one specimen cited by Karbach). AE19. 4.77g, 19.3mm. CILICIA, [B]Augusta[/B], 183/184 AD (Year 164). Karbach, [I]Augusta [/I]p.54, 81 (same obv die); RPC Online Temp 6170 (as Marcus Aurelius, one example cited). O: Laureate head of Commodus right, AV KOMODO [...]. R: AVGOVSTN(sic) ETOY EPD, horse standing right, head turned left; tree to left. The city of Augusta (cited located near Adana in modern day Turkey) was founded in AD 20 on the eastern Cilician plains and named after Livia, widow of Augustus. It was built in a loop of the river Seyhan between some low hills, and its ruins were only discovered in 1955. Unfortunately, the site was never excavated as that same year, the Seyhan Dam was completed and entire cite disappeared beneath its waters. The artificial Lake Seyhan and its dam are now a popular tourist and local attraction. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/seyhan-dam-lake-jpg.378980/[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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