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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Gallienus| > RY20535
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D., Heliopolis, Coele-Syria
|Gallienus|, |Gallienus,| |August| |253| |-| |September| |268| |A.D.,| |Heliopolis,| |Coele-Syria|, Astarte, called "Ashtroth" in Scripture, was the favorite goddess of the Sidonians, Tyrians, Philistines, and Syro-Phoenicians generally. She was associated with the Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus Genetrix, being believed by the ancients to be the goddess of generation, as well as of beauty. Astarte was chiefly worshiped and appears on the coins of Berytus, Bostra, Sidon, and Tyre. Her image is of a young woman, wearing a tall headdress; and clothed in a tunic, high in the neck- sometimes, not reaching lower than the knees, or sometimes with a longer dress, but with one knee exposed, and one foot planted on a galley's prow.
RY20535. Bronze AE 22, SNG Cop 444; BMC Galatia p. 294, 29; Lindgren III 1285, F, Heliopolis (Baalbek, Lebanon) mint, weight 9.380g, maximum diameter 22.0mm, die axis 180o, obverse IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse COL IVL AVG FEL HEL, Astarte seated facing on throne, vexillum on each side; SOLD











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