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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Athens| > GB72227
Athens, Attica, c. 120 - 150 A.D.
|Athens|, |Athens,| |Attica,| |c.| |120| |-| |150| |A.D.|, During its 500 years of Roman rule, Athens was made a free city and remained a center of learning and philosophy, patronized by emperors such as Nero and Hadrian. Hadrian constructed a library, a gymnasium, an aqueduct which is still in use, several temples and sanctuaries, a bridge and financed the completion of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
GB72227. Bronze AE 24, BMC Attica p. 108, 789 & pl. XIX, 2 (same dies); Svoronos Athens pl. 97, 24 (=BMC 789); Kroll 183a; SNG Cop 345; SNG Munchen 337, VF, rough, scratches, edge chip, Athens mint, weight 6.046g, maximum diameter 24.3mm, die axis 270o, pseudo-autonomous under Rome, c. 120 - 150 A.D.; obverse helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis; reverse Themistokles standing right on galley, wearing military garb, wreath in his right hand, trophy of arms in left over shoulder; owl standing right on acrostolium, snake on ram, AΘ-Η divided across field; very rare; SOLD










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