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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Macedonia| > |Amphipolis| > GB73165
Augustus, 16 January 27 B.C. - 19 August 14 A.D., Amphipolis, Macedonia
|Amphipolis|, |Augustus,| |16| |January| |27| |B.C.| |-| |19| |August| |14| |A.D.,| |Amphipolis,| |Macedonia|, Tauropolos is an epithet for the goddess Artemis, variously interpreted to mean worshiped at Tauris (Crimea), or pulled by a yoke of bulls, or the hunting bull goddess. A statue of Artemis Tauropolos by Iphigenia in her temple at Brauron in Attica was said to have been from the Taurians. The festival of Artemis at Athens was called the Tauropolia.
GB73165. Bronze AE 24, RPC I 1626; SNG ANS 164 - 165; SNG Cop 89 - 91; SNG Tüb 994; BMC Macedonia p. 52, 73, VF, Amphipolis mint, weight 13.459g, maximum diameter 23.9mm, die axis 0o, c. 31 - 27 B.C.; obverse KAIΣAP ΘEOY YIOΣ (Caesar son of God), bare head right; reverse AMΦIΠOΛEITΩN, Artemis Tauropolos riding bull right, holding billowing veil with both hands; SOLD










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