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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2817189, member: 57495&quot;]<b>ILIUM </b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]660566[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>SALONINA</b></p><p>AE22. 4.96g, 22.2mm. TROAS, Ilium (Troy), 253 - 268 AD. Bellinger, Troy, T294; SNG Munich 279; SNG Cop 443.&nbsp; O: CAΛΩNINA CEB, diademed and draped bust right.&nbsp; R: IΛ-IE-ΩN, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Athena right, wearing aegis.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Homer&#039;s epic poem of the Trojan War, the Iliad, is sometimes also called the Song of Ilion, in reference to the Greek name for the settlement that was built on the site of the ancient city of Troy.&nbsp; Even though Xerxes and Alexander the Great had known of and visited the fabled site, the geographer Strabo noted that it &quot;was for a time a mere village, having its temple of Athena, a small and cheap temple&quot;.&nbsp; Ilium was, however, by Strabo&#039;s time, already a city of size and significance in the Troad. </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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