Pocket Change Seleucid

Everyone loves to find coins in unexpected places. There is always a certain thrill that comes from discovering those dropped coins on a city sidewalk or that loose change behind the couch cushions. The thrill is even greater when the find is more unusual or esoteric, like a bronze follis of Maurice Tiberius (AD 582–602) found cemented into a Byzantine wall when I worked at the site of Aphrodisias in the late 1990s, or an English East India Company pice found at an original Mormon settlement in Salt Lake Valley. Coins in strange places are great things. Nevertheless, it has…

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