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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 5323366, member: 99456&quot;]Here&#039;s another for comparison - and I wonder if these continued to be minted in &quot;ΣΟΛΕΩΝ&quot; through the sacking by Tigranes II and relocation of the residents to Tigranocerta in 83 BC,with the some residents making their way back after Tigranocerta was sacked by Lucullus in 69 BC, and in 67 BC settling of pirates in Soloi by Pompey the Great.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t sound like a great place to live during the time of this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">&quot;Thus successful in his campaign, Lucullus struck camp and proceeded to Tigranocerta, which city he invested and began to besiege. There were in the city many Greeks who had been transplanted, like others, from Cilicia, and many Barbarians who had suffered the same fate as the Greeks, — Adiabeni, Assyrians, Gordyeni and Cappadocians, whose native cities Tigranes had demolished, and brought their inhabitants to dwell there under compulsion.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="3">-Plutarch, Lives, <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html#26.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html#26.1" rel="nofollow">Lucullus 26.1</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1224977[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3"><b>Cilicia, Soloi</b>, circa 100-30 BC, AE</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Size:</b> 23mm, 7.21 g, 12h</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Obv:</b> Radiate head (of Helios?) right</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Rev: </b>Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΣΟΛΕΩΝ downward to left.</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Ref: </b>SNG France 1193; SNG Levante 873</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Note: </b>ex CNG, ex Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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