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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2816781, member: 42773&quot;]I have two more C&#039;s I need to get out of my system before I can move on. A coin of <b>Cyrrhus</b> was already posted, but no history of the city. It&#039;s ruins are located in northwest Syria, on the Turkish border. The wiki blurb is quite succinct...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">The Cyrrhus in Syria was founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_Nicator" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_Nicator" rel="nofollow">Seleucus Nicator</a> shortly after 300 BC, and was named after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_%28region%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_%28region%29" rel="nofollow">Macedonian</a> city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrrhus,_Macedonia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrrhus,_Macedonia" rel="nofollow">Cyrrhus</a>. It was taken by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Empire" rel="nofollow">Armenian Empire</a> in the 1st century BC, then became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">Roman</a> when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey" rel="nofollow">Pompey</a> took Syria in 64 BC. By the 1st century AD, it had become a Roman administrative, military, and commercial center on the trade route between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch" rel="nofollow">Antioch</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates_River" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates_River" rel="nofollow">Euphrates River</a> crossing at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma,_Commagene" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma,_Commagene" rel="nofollow">Zeugma</a>, and minted its own coinage. It was the base of the Roman legion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_X_Fretensis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_X_Fretensis" rel="nofollow">Legio X Fretensis</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanid_Persian_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanid_Persian_Empire" rel="nofollow">Sassanid Persian Empire</a> took it several times during the 3rd century.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Cyrrhus boasted one of the largest Roman amphitheaters in Syria...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]660373[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a bronze issued by Trajan...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]660374[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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