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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Gallienus| > RP19845
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D., Ephesos, Ionia
|Gallienus|, |Gallienus,| |August| |253| |-| |September| |268| |A.D.,| |Ephesos,| |Ionia|, Ephesos, on the west coast of Anatolia, was famous for its Temple of Artemis, completed around 550 B.C., one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The usual symbols of this nature-goddess and the city are the torch, stag, and the bee. Coins of Ephesos most frequently depict a bee on the obverse. The high-priest of the temple of Artemis was called the King Bee, while the virgin priestesses were called honey-bees (Melissae). Ephesus was one of the seven churches cited in the Book of Revelation and the Gospel of John may have been written there.
RP19845. Bronze AE 27, SNGvA 1930 var. (rev. legend), SNG Cop -, aVF, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, weight 7.442g, maximum diameter 26.5mm, die axis 180o, obverse AYT K ΠO ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse EΦECIΩN T NEΩKOPΩ-N or similar, covered four-wheeled wagon right, drawn by two mules, side of wagon hung with two wreathes; SOLD











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