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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 3938225, member: 77226&quot;]Great coins everyone. Here&#039;s one of my favorites of Alexandria Troas.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1038168[/ATTACH] </p><p>Caracalla</p><p>Ob: M AVR ANTONI-NVS PIVS AVG; laureate and draped bust right</p><p>Rv. COL A-V-G / TROAD Temple of Apollo Smintheus in perspective side view. The side wall with bricked cuboids, the front four-columned, in the middle intercolumnium, statue of Apollo Smintheus right, holding patera and bow. In the gable field globe. </p><p>Bellinger, T. 119, A273. SNG cop. 134. Price-Trell 259, 322. </p><p><br /></p><p>From an attribution of another example found online:</p><p><i>&quot;The cult of Apollo Smintheus extended only to asia minor with Alexandria as its centre.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>After the fall of Troy the Greeks start to spread to the East. They settled on the Aegean islands and the western coast of Asia Minor. The worship of Apollo in this region had a curious origin. When the old Teukri under their king Teucer came from Crete to the coast of Asia Minor, the oracle told them to stay there where they could see their enemies creeping out of the ground. When they came to Hamaxitos, a city in this region, the mice creeping out of the ground gnawed on their shields during the night. So they saw the oracle of the god fulfilled, settled down and erected a statue of Apollo with a mouse laying at his feet, which in the Aeolian dialect was called Smintha.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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