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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2978546, member: 75937&quot;]<b>Laodicea Combusta </b>has not yet been mentioned.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was one of the five cities built by Seleucus I Nicator and named after his mother Laodice. It is distinguished from other cities by that name by the epithet Combusta (Κατακεκαυμένη in the original Greek), which means &quot;burned.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>It lies on the Black Sea coast in the north of Turkey, at the modern day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A2dik" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A2dik" rel="nofollow">city of Ladik</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732372[/ATTACH] </p><p>Titus and Domitian, Caesares, AD 69-81</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 20mm, 5.15g, 6h</p><p>Lycaonia, Laodicea Combusta (Laodikeia Katakekaumene / Claudio-Laodicea)</p><p>Obv: TITOC KAI ΔOMITIANOC KAICAΡEC, bare head of Titus right, facing bare head of Domitian left</p><p>KΛAYΔIO ΛAOΔIKЄѠN, Cybele, polos on head, seated left, holding patera and tympanum; lion beneath throne</p><p>Refs: RPC II 1613; von Aulock Lykaoniens 151; SNG von Aulock 8416; Waddington 4779; SNG France III 2322.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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