Cilicia, Anemurium. Gallienus

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Cilicia, Anemurium. Gallienus

Cilicia, Anemurium. Gallienus. A.D. 253-268. AE 23 (22.65 mm, 6.52 g, 7 h). struck A.D. 255/6. AY K ΠOY ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNON, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gallienus right, seen from behind / ЄT Γ (= yr. 3 = A.D. 255/6) ANЄ-M-OYRI[Є]ωN, Artemis standing facing, head right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder, at her feet to left, stag reclining left, head facing. SNG Levante 522. VF, brown patina on devices, green patina in fields.Anemurium was already in existence in the Hellenistic period. In AD 52, it was besieged by native inhabitants of the area, and was under threat from a similar quarter in 382. Coins from its mint survive from the time of Antiochus IV of Commagene (38–72) to Valerian (253–259). In 260, it was captured by the Sasanians, an event that sent Anemurium into decline for many decades, but it continued to be prosperous until the mid-7th century when it was more or less completely abandoned, probably because the Arab occupation of Cyprus made the coast unsafe.

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