The Wonderful World of Ancient Coin Collecting
Coinage of the Roman Empire


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Coin Description:
Grade: NGC Ch VF Strike: 5/5 Surface: 4/5
Grade Comment: deposits
Owner: RAM-VT
 
Set Category: Ancients
Set Name: The Wonderful World of Ancient Coin Collecting
Slot Name: Coinage of the Roman Empire
Research: Currently not available

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Greek-Asia Minor-Korykos AE21 Sear #5545 Grade Ch. VF: Strike 5/5: Surface 4/5 - Deposits Census - NGC does not provide census info on ancient coins :>( Obv: Turreted bust of Tyche right; AN behind Rev: Hermes standing left, holding caduceus In antiquity, Cilicia was the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Byzantine empire. Cilicia extends inland from the southeastern coast of modern Turkey, due north and northeast of the island of Cyprus. Korycus (Corycos or Korykos) was an ancient city in Cilicia Trachaea, Anatolia, located at the mouth of the river called Seytan deresi; the site is now occupied by the town of Kizkalesi (formerly Ghorgos), Mersin Province, Turkey. In ancient Greek city cults, Tyche (meaning "luck" in Greek, Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. Increasingly during the Hellenistic period, cities venerated their own specific iconic version of Tyche, wearing a mural crown (a crown like the walls of the city). The Greek historian Polybius believed that when no cause can be discovered to events such as floods, drought or frosts then the cause of these events may be fairly attributed to Tyche. Stylianos Spyridakis concisely expressed Tyche's appeal in a Hellenistic world of arbitrary violence and unmeaning reverses: "In the turbulent years of the Epigoni of Alexander, an awareness of the instability of human affairs led people to believe that Tyche, the blind mistress of Fortune, governed mankind with an inconstancy which explained the vicissitudes of the time My cost was $52

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