HADRIAN SILVER HEMIDRACHM________Ancient Caesarea, Palestine_______NIKE / WREATH

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19A11
FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER HEMIDRACHM OF EMPEROR HADRIAN MINTED IN CAESAREA PALESTINE FROM 117 - 138 AD .
Caesarea, Palestine became the capital of the Roman province of Judaea in 6 AD. Subsequently, it was an important center of early Christianity.
THE SIZE IS 14.0 MM AND 1.43 GRAMS.
Sydenham 255
OBVERSE – Laureate head of Hadrian to right
REVERSE – Nike advancing right, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond in her left
ANCIENT CAESAREA
Caesarea was an ancient port and administrative city of Palestine, on the Mediterranean coast of present-day Israel south of Haifa. Originally an ancient Phoenician settlement known as Straton’s (Strato’s) Tower, it was rebuilt and enlarged in 22–10 BC by Herod the Great, king of Judaea under the Romans, and renamed for his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus.
Herod built a harbor at Caesarea that would become one of the wonders of the ancient world. He built a massive breakwater which formed a horseshoe of protection around the whole bay. On the coast he built some of the most impressive works of architecture in the Roman world. He built an amphitheater, a citadel, a palace, a hippodrome, city walls and gates, paved squares with huge statues, and other marvels of Graeco-Roman civilization. It was here in Caesarea where the prefect Pontius Pilate lived, the foundation of his house was on a rock in the middle of the harbor and is still there to this day.
The city became the capital of the Roman province of Judaea in 6 AD. Subsequently, it was an important center of early Christianity; in the New Testament it is mentioned in Acts in connection with Peter, Philip the Apostle, and, especially, Paul, who was imprisoned there before being sent to Rome for trial.
According to the 1st-century AD historian Flavius Josephus, the Jewish revolt against Rome, which culminated in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD, was touched off by an incident at Caesarea in 66 AD.
During the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 AD, the Romans tortured and killed the 10 greatest leaders and sages of Palestinian Jewry, including Rabbi Akiba. Caesarea was almost certainly the place of execution of Rabbi Akiba and the others according to tradition. The death of these Ten Martyrs is still commemorated in the liturgy for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement).
After this Caesarea became the capital of the province renamed Syria-Palaestina by the emperor Hadrian.
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