Mint of Myra

c. 200 BC/BCE to 43 CE and 238 CE to 244 CE

Myra was an ancient Greek, then Roman Greek, Byzantine Greek, then Ottoman Greek town in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of Turkey. Its coinage began around the 2nd century BC, but in 43 AD Claudius cancelled the permission for Myra to strike coins and it wasn't until the reign of Gordian III that permission was granted again.

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c. 200 BC/BCE to 43 CE and 238 CE to 244 CE

Myra was an ancient Greek, then Roman Greek, Byzantine Greek, then Ottoman Greek town in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of Turkey. Its coinage began around the 2nd century BC, but in 43 AD Claudius cancelled the permission for Myra to strike coins and it wasn't until the reign of Gordian III that permission was granted again.

Subject ID: 127842

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