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ID:
591740
[UNVERIFIED]
Type:
Roman Provincial
Region:
PHRYGIA
City:
Otrus
Issuer:
Geta
Date Ruled:
AD 209-211
Metal:
Bronze
Denomination:
AE 27
Date Struck:
AD 193-209
Diameter:
27 mm
Weight:
9.55 g
Obverse Legend:
ΠΟ CΣΠT ΓETAC KAI
Obverse Description:
Bare-headed and cuirassed bust right
Reverse Legend:
AΛΣΞΑΝ−ΔΡ-OC AN-EO[...] OTPONΩ
Reverse Description:
Otreus embarking on prow of ship to left, right arm raised, head turned back, holding spear in left hand
Primary Reference:
VA, Phrygiens 832 (this coin)
Reference2:
SNG VA 3906
Reference3:
Kapossy 44
Reference4:
Cornell 111 (this coin)
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=16440
Grade:
Good VF, black patina with earthen encrustation around the devices, old scratch on head, adjustment marks on reverse
Notes:
Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1740 ($1000) From the David Simpson Collection Otrus was one of the five cities of the Eucarpic plain and may have been named Otrus after an emigration from Otroea in Bythinia, which according to Strabo (XII, 566) was founded by Otreus, the king of Phrygia of the time of the Trojan War. The passage about this famous warrior, whom Priam helped fight against the Amazons in a battle on the river Sangarius, in the Iliad (III) is brief but very descriptive: "... When I was in Phrygia I saw many horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans."
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