Mopsus

The founding of this city is attributed to the seer Mopsus, from whom the city also took its name. Pliny the Elder calls it the free city of Mopsos (Hist. nat., V, 22), but the ordinary name is Mopsuestia. Under the Seleucid Empire, the city took the name of Seleucia on the Pyramus. Under Hadrian it was called Hadriana. In 1151–1152 the Armenian Baron T'oros II captured the city and defeated the Greek counter attack led by Andronikos I Komnenos. Thereafter it remained a possession of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

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Antiochus IV
Mint: Quasi-municipal Seleucia on the Pyramus (Mopsus)
Denomination C
168 to 164 BC
Obvs: Diademed head of Antiochus IV right, dotted border.
Revs: ΣEΛEYKEΩN TΩN ΠPOΣ TΩI ΠYPAMΩI around, Artemis standing facing and drawing arrow from quiver while holding bow. Dotted border, monogram inner left and IA monogram inner right.
AE 15mm, 4.50g
$0.00
Order # G 322
Ref: cf. SC 1387.2; HGC 9, 681(R2)
Note: Unpublished with IA monogram instead of I A.

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Antiochus IV
Mint: Quasi-municipal Seleucia on the Pyramus (Mopsus)
Denomination C
168 to 164 BC
Obvs: Diademed head of Antiochus IV right, dotted border.
Revs: IEPOΠOΛITΩN on right TΩN ΠPOΣ TΩI ΠYPAMΩI on left, eagle standing left. Wreath border, Monogram above eagle.
AE 14mm, 3.87g
$0.00
Order # G 329
Ref: cf. SC 1391.1; HGC 9, 682(R2)
Note: Unpublished with unlisted monogram

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