Cilicia, Laerte
Trajan 98-117 CE
Bronze Diassarion 12.16g, 22mm
Laureate bust of Trajan right “AYTOKPATωP TPAIANOC”
Apollo standing left, holding a patera and scepter. “ΛAЄPTЄITωN”
RPC 2747
Laerte was mentioned by Strabo as a fortress, but otherwise little is known about it. The city may have been the birthplace of Diogenes Laertius, whose Lives of Eminent Philosophers is still referenced and read today.