Antiochia ad Orontem in Syria, 7-4 BC., legatus P. Quintilius Varus, Tetrachalkon, RPC 4252.

Syria, Antiocheia ad Orontem, Tetrachalkon AE 19-20, Augustus, legatus P. Quintilius Varus, 7-4 BC
Av.: laureate head of Zeus r.
Rv.: ANTIOXEQN - EnI - OYAPOY / ZK , tyche seated r. with palm, river god Orontes swimming at her feet (ZK = year 27 = 5/4 BC)
RPC 4252 ; BMC 59
In the years about 7 - 4 BC Publius Quinctilius Varus was governor of the important province Syria. In this function he had to intervene 4 BC in Judaea. During 6/7 AD he received the governor post for Gallia with the supreme command on the Rhine. In the late summer of 9 AD he died during the "clades Variana" in the swamps and woods of northwestern Germany.

Caesar bestowed freedom to the city of Antioch in June 47 B.C.

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