ARMENIA Mithradates satrap circa 212 BC bronze, bee reverse
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DescriptionCappadochia (Cappadocia) is a region of central Anatolia. People carved out cave homes in the hills, the original “troglodytes.” The big modern city is Kayseri. It was usually subject to some empire or another. There was a Hellenistic kingdom, then Roman control, then the Arabs, then the Turks.The big change that Alexander the Great brought about was the union of the Greek spirit of inquiry with the methods of imperial bureaucracy.Ancient Coins includes Greek and Roman coins and those of neighbors and successors, geographically from Morocco and Spain all the way to Afghanistan. Date ranges for these begin with the world’s earliest coins of the 8th century BC to, in an extreme case, the end of Byzantine Empire, 1453 AD.
