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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Ephesos| > RP84096
Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D., Ephesos, Ionia
|Ephesos|, |Antoninus| |Pius,| |August| |138| |-| |7| |March| |161| |A.D.,| |Ephesos,| |Ionia|, The curule chair was for senior magistrates including dictators, masters of the horse, consuls, praetors, censors, and the curule aediles. As a form of a throne, it might be given as an honor to foreign kings recognized formally as a friend (amicus) by the Roman people or senate. Designed for use by commanders in the field, the curule chair could be folded for easy transport. It had no back, low arms, curved legs forming an X, and was traditionally made of or veneered with ivory.
RP84096. Bronze AE 25, Macdonald Hunter p. 330, 29 & pl. L, 17; SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, SNG Munchen -; SNG Tüb -, SNG Leypold -, SNG Turkey -; SNG Hunterian -, RPC -, BMC -, VF, green patina, tight flan, corrosion, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, weight 12.463g, maximum diameter 24.8mm, die axis 30o, Aug 138 - 7 Mar 161 A.D.; obverse Antoninus Pius seated left on curule chair, laureate and togate, lituus in right hand; reverse ΕΦΕ/ΣIΩN in two lines within laurel wreath closed at the top with an annulet; ex Bankhaus Aufhäuser (18 Nov 1997); very rare; SOLD











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