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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Cyprus| > RP59007
Titus, 24 June 79 - 13 September 81 A.D., Paphos(?), Cyprus
|Cyprus|, |Titus,| |24| |June| |79| |-| |13| |September| |81| |A.D.,| |Paphos(?),| |Cyprus|, Titus visited the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos in 69 A.D., when the future emperor was on his way to Egypt. He consulted the oracle of Aphrodite, and was told that he had a great future.

The 1.2 mm high gray-green conical stone, which once stood at the center of the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos, was found by archaeologists near the temple and is now in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. It is not a meteorite.
RP59007. Silver didrachm, RPC II 1809, F, encrustations, Paphos(?) mint, weight 5.636g, maximum diameter 21.0mm, die axis 0o, obverse AYTOKPATΩP TITOC KAICAP, laureate head left; reverse ETOYC NEOY IEPOY, temple of Aphrodite at Paphos, conical stone (xoanon) at center, Θ in exergue; rare; SOLD











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