Cappadocia: Caesarea, Didrachm big flan, Mount Argaeus
US $158.50
Jan 13th 2005
Seller henri.delger

Cappadocia: Caesarea, AR Didrachm, broad flan (22 mm ), 4.3
grams. Laureate head of Commodus, as Caesar, facing right.


Mount Argaeus, crowned by a star. Metcalf 155d; Sydenham
372B. Mazaca was first occupied around 4000 B.C. by the Hittites. It was renamed Caesarea of Cappadocia by Romans in 
the first century A.D. The nearby volcano east of Hasan 
Dagi, was then called Mt. Argaeus, and had long inspired 
legends among ancient people as a dwelling place of the gods 
(the Persians built a Zoroastrian fire temple there).