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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 3288122, member: 4298&quot;]Hi Folks !</p><p><br /></p><p>Secret Saturnalia delivered just in time to be still in 2018 !</p><p><br /></p><p>Big <b>Up</b> to [USER=78058]@Smojo[/USER] who, regardless of the challenges he faces, struggled with the USPS to have his gifts posted and brought to a far destination without too much trouble !</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been humbled to find in the package two coins (well, actually it&#039;s 1 an 4/5 coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) and an amusing and amazing Amazon gift card. I have already used the gift card to buy two books I needed (I didn&#039;t know I needed them until now, but now I&#039;m impatient to have them) :</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41DkwlUMYEL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ToUpXhdLL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The two coins are the following, the first having obviously been purchased from Forvm (Wow !)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869244[/ATTACH] <b>Elaiussa Sebaste, Islands of Cilicia</b>, 1st century BC under roman rule</p><p>Bronze AE 20</p><p>Diademed head of Zeus right, ΘΕ monogram upward behind</p><p>Nike walking left, wreath in right hand, EΛAIOYΣΣIΩN downward on left, ΠΑ monogram over EP outer left</p><p>5,08 gr - 20 mm</p><p>Ref : SNG Levante # 830, SNG BnF # 1142, BMC Cilicia p.235,9</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Elaiussa, meaning olive, was founded in the 2nd century B.C. on a tiny island attached to the southern coast of Turkey by a narrow isthmus in Mediterranean Sea. During the reign of Augustus, the Cappadocian king Archelaus founded a new city on the isthmus. Archelaus called it Sebaste, which is the Greek equivalent word of the Latin &quot;Augusta.&quot; The city entered its golden age when Vespasian purged Cilicia of pirates in 74 A.D. Towards the end of the 3rd century A.D. its importance began to wane, due in large part to incursions by the Sassanian King Shapur I in 260 and later by the Isaurians. When its neighbor Corycus began to flourish in the 6th century A.D., Elaiussa Sebaste slowly disappeared from history. The theater, dating to the 2nd century A.D., is small with only 23 rows of seats, whose steps and decorations unfortunately succumbed to centuries of plunder.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Despite a little chip on the flan, the&nbsp; second one shows an incredibly brutal portrait of Caracalla<i></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]869249[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><b>Caracalla, denarius,</b> Rome mint AD 214</p><p>ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head right</p><p><font size="4">PM TR P XVII COS IV PP, Serapis standing left, raising right hand and holding sceptre</font></p><p><font size="4">1,97 gr - 18 mm</font></p><p><font size="4">Ref : RIC IV # 244, RSC # 241</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Thanks again to my SS for a fabulous gesture</font></p><p><font size="4">Happy new year all !!</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Q</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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