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ID:
591764
[UNVERIFIED]
Type:
Roman Provincial
Region:
SYRIA, COELE SYRIA
City:
Damascus
Issuer:
Philip I
Date Ruled:
AD 244-249
Metal:
Bronze
Denomination:
AE 28
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
AD 244-249
Diameter:
28 mm
Weight:
15.17 g
Obverse Legend:
[IMP C IVL PHI]LIPPVS PIO FEL AVG
Obverse Description:
Laureate and cuirassed bust left
Reverse Legend:
[CO]L ÐAM-[A METRO]
Reverse Description:
Hind standing right, suckling Telephos
Primary Reference:
Mionnet V pg. 292, 63
Reference2:
SNG Cop -
Reference3:
Rosenberger -
Reference4:
BMC Galatia, etc
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=16461
Notes:
Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1764 Fine, brown patina When Herakles came to Tegea in Arcadia he seduced Auge, not knowing that she was King Aleus' daughter. From this union a boy was born who was secretly hidden by Auge in the precinct of Athena. But Aleus, some say, discovered his daughter's motherhood when he, on account of a pestilence that was ravaging the country, visited the temple of Athena. He then took the infant and exposed it on Mount Parthenius, but it survived, being nourished by a doe that had just cast her fawn. Soon shepherds appeared who took up the infant and named him Telephos. His myth and the stories of his adventures in the Trojan War were fostered by the Attalid rulers of Pergamon in Mysia. A detail of the celebrated painting of Telephos in the Basilica of Herculaneum depicts this coin's reverse scene, and is thought to reproduce a Hellenistic original.
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