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Epiphaneia in Cilicia, Hadrian and Sabina, Æ29, Sear GIC 1268.
Epiphaneia in Cilicia, Hadrian and Sabina,
Æ29 (28-29 mm / 12.02 g), ca. 137-138 AD.,
Obv.: [...KAIC] TPAI AΔPIANOC ΓEP .. , laureate head of Hadrian right.
Rev.: [CABEINA] CEBACTH - [EΠIΦANEΩN] , diademed and draped bust of Sabina right, hair coiled and piled high on back of head behind metal tiara, dated CE retrograde behind Sabina's portrait ( year 205 of the Era of Epiphaneia = AD 137/8 ).
Sear GIC 1268 ; SNG Levante 1816 ; BMC 21. 76, 1 .

thanks to Curtis Clay for the ID

Collected from wikipedia and other websources:

Epiphaneia in Cilicia was situated near the head of the Gulf of Issus. The town issued quasi-autonomous and imperial coins from Trajan to Gallienus. Inscr., ЄΠΙΦΛΝЄΩΝ, on earliest coins also ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΠΟ. The local Era of Epiphaneia starts 68 BC.

Epiphaneia in Cilicia, today Hama (Arabic: حماه, meaning fortress) is a city on the banks of the Orontes river in central Syria, relatively near the northeast border of Lebanon. It is the capital of the Hama Governorate. Its population numbers 410,000 inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest city in Syria
The ancient settlement of Hama was occupied from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age. The Hittite levels are overlain by Aramaic remains which date to the end of the 11th century BC. At this time, Aramaic tribes seem to have taken over the whole Orontes and Litani-valley. Together with Aram (Damascus) Hama formed an important Aramaic state in the Syrian interior. As the Aramaic script was written on paper, very few records have been recovered in Hama itself.
Biblical reports are scarce, but state that Hamath was the capital of a Canaanite kingdom whose king, Thou, congratulated king David on his victory over the king of Soba. Solomon, it would seem, took possession of Hamath and its territory. The prophet Amos calls the town "Hamath the Great". The Assyrians took possession of it in the seventh century B.C.
In 605 BC, the remains of the Egyptian garrison of Carchemish was annihilated at Hama by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.In 554/553 Hama was the target of a campaign by Nabonidus of Babylon.
At the time of the Macedonian conquest it was given the name Epiphania, no doubt in honour of and probably by king Antiochus Epiphanes (Greek "epiphaneia" = appearance). The inhabitants took no notice and continued to use the old name. Aquila and Theodoretus call it Emath-Epiphania. The city later came under the control of Rome and of the Byzantine Empire, as part of the province of Syria Secunda.
Conquered by the Arabs in A.D. 638 or 639, the town regained its ancient name, and has since retained it, under the form Hama(h), meaning a fortress.
Tancred took it in 1108, but in 1115 the Franks lost it definitively. The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179-1229), was born there. Christian Crusaders held Hama briefly (1108), but in 1188 it was re-taken by Saladin, under whose Ayyubid family it remained until it passed to Egyptian Mamluk control in 1299. An early Mamluk governor of Hama was Abu al-Fida (reigned 1310–30), the historian and geographer.
In the early 16th century the city came under the control of the Ottoman Empire, during which period a variety of Khans. Hamah (in Turkish) was a town of 45,000 inhabitants, prettily situated on the Orontes, and the residence of a Mutessarif (governor), depending on Damascus. The main portion of the population was Muslim, besides about 10,000 Christians of various rites.
After World War I Hama was made part of the French Levant States League of Nations mandate, and in 1941 it became part of independent Syria.
Schlüsselwörter: Epiphaneia Cilicia Hadrian Sabina

Epiphaneia in Cilicia, Hadrian and Sabina, Æ29, Sear GIC 1268.

Epiphaneia in Cilicia, Hadrian and Sabina,
Æ29 (28-29 mm / 12.02 g), ca. 137-138 AD.,
Obv.: [...KAIC] TPAI AΔPIANOC ΓEP .. , laureate head of Hadrian right.
Rev.: [CABEINA] CEBACTH - [EΠIΦANEΩN] , diademed and draped bust of Sabina right, hair coiled and piled high on back of head behind metal tiara, dated CE retrograde behind Sabina's portrait ( year 205 of the Era of Epiphaneia = AD 137/8 ).
Sear GIC 1268 ; SNG Levante 1816 ; BMC 21. 76, 1 .

thanks to Curtis Clay for the ID

Collected from wikipedia and other websources:

Epiphaneia in Cilicia was situated near the head of the Gulf of Issus. The town issued quasi-autonomous and imperial coins from Trajan to Gallienus. Inscr., ЄΠΙΦΛΝЄΩΝ, on earliest coins also ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΠΟ. The local Era of Epiphaneia starts 68 BC.

Epiphaneia in Cilicia, today Hama (Arabic: حماه, meaning fortress) is a city on the banks of the Orontes river in central Syria, relatively near the northeast border of Lebanon. It is the capital of the Hama Governorate. Its population numbers 410,000 inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest city in Syria
The ancient settlement of Hama was occupied from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age. The Hittite levels are overlain by Aramaic remains which date to the end of the 11th century BC. At this time, Aramaic tribes seem to have taken over the whole Orontes and Litani-valley. Together with Aram (Damascus) Hama formed an important Aramaic state in the Syrian interior. As the Aramaic script was written on paper, very few records have been recovered in Hama itself.
Biblical reports are scarce, but state that Hamath was the capital of a Canaanite kingdom whose king, Thou, congratulated king David on his victory over the king of Soba. Solomon, it would seem, took possession of Hamath and its territory. The prophet Amos calls the town "Hamath the Great". The Assyrians took possession of it in the seventh century B.C.
In 605 BC, the remains of the Egyptian garrison of Carchemish was annihilated at Hama by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.In 554/553 Hama was the target of a campaign by Nabonidus of Babylon.
At the time of the Macedonian conquest it was given the name Epiphania, no doubt in honour of and probably by king Antiochus Epiphanes (Greek "epiphaneia" = appearance). The inhabitants took no notice and continued to use the old name. Aquila and Theodoretus call it Emath-Epiphania. The city later came under the control of Rome and of the Byzantine Empire, as part of the province of Syria Secunda.
Conquered by the Arabs in A.D. 638 or 639, the town regained its ancient name, and has since retained it, under the form Hama(h), meaning a fortress.
Tancred took it in 1108, but in 1115 the Franks lost it definitively. The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179-1229), was born there. Christian Crusaders held Hama briefly (1108), but in 1188 it was re-taken by Saladin, under whose Ayyubid family it remained until it passed to Egyptian Mamluk control in 1299. An early Mamluk governor of Hama was Abu al-Fida (reigned 1310–30), the historian and geographer.
In the early 16th century the city came under the control of the Ottoman Empire, during which period a variety of Khans. Hamah (in Turkish) was a town of 45,000 inhabitants, prettily situated on the Orontes, and the residence of a Mutessarif (governor), depending on Damascus. The main portion of the population was Muslim, besides about 10,000 Christians of various rites.
After World War I Hama was made part of the French Levant States League of Nations mandate, and in 1941 it became part of independent Syria.

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