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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2810908, member: 42773&quot;]I haven&#039;t had time over the past few days to participate, and you guys have left me in the dust, so I have to do some backtracking as well. Here is an issue of Hadrian from Akko Ptolemais, which is modern-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre,_Israel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre,_Israel" rel="nofollow">Acre</a>, a city in northern Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. Acre is one of the rare natural harbors on the coast of Israel, and throughout history was a juncture between overland and sea trade routes. Because of its advantageous location, Acre is one of the oldest occupied cities in history, being continuously inhabited since the Middle Bronze Age. It makes you realize that ancient coins aren&#039;t really all that ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of those crusty Levantine provincials that might be difficult to attribute if significant portions of the legends were missing. The bust does not look much like Hadrian, but there is his name over the top of it. On the reverse we clearly see Tyche with a cornucopia and rudder. Again, it might be difficult to nail down the mint, but we have COL on the left and PTOL on the right, COLONIA PTOLEMAIS. The city was known as Acco to its natives, a word perhaps deriving from the ancient Canaanite word <i>adco</i>, meaning &quot;border.&quot; The Greeks referred to it as Ake, meaning &quot;cure,&quot; as Heracles was said to have found some healing herbs there. After Alexander the Great&#039;s conquest, the name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais, and eventually shortened by the Romans to simply Ptolemais. So I suppose you could file it under A or P. Anyway, here is the crusty little coin. Not much to look at, but not exactly a dime-a-dozen either!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]657690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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