Damascus

The mint at the ancient site of Damascus in Coele Syria.

Item	Metal	Weight
Damascus (Antiochus XII), silver, tetradrachms (Antiochus XII/cult statue of Hadad) (87-83 BCE)	Silver	6,154 kg
Damascus (Cleopatra VII), bronze, ca 9g (Cleopatra/seated Tyche) (37-32 BCE)	Bronze
Damascus (Alexander II Zebinas), silver, drachms (Alexander II/double cornucopiae) (126-125 BCE)	Silver	250 kg
Damascus (Alexander the Great), silver, tetradrachms (Heracles/seated Zeus) (333-325 BCE) Glenn 2018	Silver	20,963 kg
Damascus (Demetrius II), silver, tetradrachms (Demetrius II/seated Zeus) (128-125 BCE)	Silver	5,831 kg
Damascus (Alexander II Zebinas), silver, tetradrachms (Alexander II/seated Zeus) (126-122 BCE)	Silver	4,776 kg
Damascus (Antiochus VIII and Antiochus IX), silver, tetradrachms (Antiochus VIII/seated Zeus) (102-99 BCE)	Silver	1,520 kg
Damascus (Demetrius III), silver, tetradrachms (Demetrius III/standing statue of Atargatis) (97-87 BCE)	Silver	9,040 kg
Damascus (Demetrius III), silver, drachms (Demetrius III/standing Nike) (97-87 BCE)	Silver	209 kg
Damascus (Demetrius III), silver, hemidrachms (Demetrius III/diadem) (97-87 BCE)	Silver	42 kg
Damascus (Tigranes the Younger of Sophene), silver, tetradrachms (Tigranes/seated Tyche of Damascus) (71-68 BCE)	Silver	3,021 kg
Damascus (Antiochus VII), silver, tetradrachms (Antiochus VII/standing Athena) (138-129 BCE)	Silver	5,721 kg
Damascus (Antiochus VII), silver, drachms (Antiochus VII/standing Nike) (137-136 BCE)	Silver	267 kg

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Item	Overstruck type	Metal	Date	Overstriking coin
3409 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Heracles) over Antiochus XII (Damascus) (Antiochus XII/Zeus) (Nercessian 1995, 73)		Bronze	79 BC ^JL
2504 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Damascus (Antiochus XII/Zeus) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 13)		Bronze	80 BC ^JL

Nomisma ID	damascus
Definition:	The mint at the ancient site of Damascus in Coele Syria.
Pleiades ID	678106
Ancient region	Syria (Coele-Syria) Nomisma: greek_syria, Nomisma: coele-syria
Modern country	Syria
Coordinates	33.513000° N, 36.292000° E
Links	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Damascus https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678106 https://sws.geonames.org/9962612/ http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/place/x21219 http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7002261

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