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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3020218, member: 74834"]And Titiopolis, too. I might as well post the coin I won (that hasn't come in, so far) that is a premiere on CoinTalk for the town of <b>Colybrassus</b> in Cilicia. Besides, for my collection, it is the first of the Empress Tranquillina (what a beautiful name), the wife of young Emperor Gordian III. My 90th Roman sovereign.</p><p><br /></p><p>At present, Colybrassus is a nameless field of ruins in mountainous Turkey, 15 miles north of Alanya (=Coracesium, mentioned above!). Here's a picture of the landscape only a few miles from Colybrassus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]750730[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CILICIA. Colybrassus. Tranquillina (Augusta, 241-244). AE18. Obv: Draped bust to the right. CAB TPANKVΛΛЄINA. Rev. Hermes standing left, holding purse and caduceus. KOΛVBPACCЄΩN.18 mm, 3.07 gr. Ziegler 44; SNG BN 551; SNG Levante 338. Ex Dr. P. Vogl Collection; ex auction Bankhaus Aufhäuser 4, lot 417 (7 October 1987).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]750732[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3020218, member: 74834"]And Titiopolis, too. I might as well post the coin I won (that hasn't come in, so far) that is a premiere on CoinTalk for the town of [B]Colybrassus[/B] in Cilicia. Besides, for my collection, it is the first of the Empress Tranquillina (what a beautiful name), the wife of young Emperor Gordian III. My 90th Roman sovereign. At present, Colybrassus is a nameless field of ruins in mountainous Turkey, 15 miles north of Alanya (=Coracesium, mentioned above!). Here's a picture of the landscape only a few miles from Colybrassus. [ATTACH=full]750730[/ATTACH] CILICIA. Colybrassus. Tranquillina (Augusta, 241-244). AE18. Obv: Draped bust to the right. CAB TPANKVΛΛЄINA. Rev. Hermes standing left, holding purse and caduceus. KOΛVBPACCЄΩN.18 mm, 3.07 gr. Ziegler 44; SNG BN 551; SNG Levante 338. Ex Dr. P. Vogl Collection; ex auction Bankhaus Aufhäuser 4, lot 417 (7 October 1987). [ATTACH=full]750732[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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