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Offline Jochen

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Unpublished Gallienus?
« on: May 01, 2006, 01:39:56 pm »
Hi!

Recently I got this Gallienus ant with a nice depiction of Apollo on the rev.
Gallienus AD 253-268, sole reign 260-268
AE - Antoninianus, 2.8g, 20.2mm
Mediolanum 257-259
obv. GALLIENVS AVG
bust, radiate, r.
rev. [APOLL]O CONSERV
Apollo stg. frontal, head r., holding r. arm above head, holding with r. hand
lyre, set on column on which is laying his chlamys
about VF

RIC V/1, (Mediolanum) 467 describes the rev. as Apollo stg. looking r., holding lyre on rock. I couldn't find any type with lyre set on column with cloak. So I think it could be unpublished.

How should it be named? RIC 467 var.? Or should it have a separate number? RIC cf. 467?

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Re: Unpublished Gallienus?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2006, 02:05:05 pm »
Jochen,

Normanby 398 is a coin that appears, like yours, apparently with lyre on column, and the one on Ed Flinn's site also is clearly no rock: tentatively then, I suggest it might be a case of a misdescription?

http://www258.pair.com/denarius/images/erf_ri2818.jpg

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Re: Unpublished Gallienus?
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2006, 02:27:11 pm »
         Göbl 1168, Milan, 8 specimens noted, that's with rev. CONSERV.
         With CONSER only, much commoner, Göbl 1169, 54 specimens.
         As Steve suspected, the type always shows a column below the lyre, never a rock.
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Re: Unpublished Gallienus?
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2006, 03:18:54 pm »
According to Philip Hill in his "Monuments of Ancient Rome as Coin Types", the Apollo depicted on the coin is probably the Apollo by Timarchides of Athens. It was included in the works of art in the Temple of Apollo Medicus on the Campus Martius by Pliny the Elder.

Hill writes "A rather naive version of this statue appears on antoniniani of the sole reign of Gallienus. The engravers, never very efficient in their execution of reverse types at this period, have taken some liberties with their subject. Apollo is shown completely nude, although vestiges of drapery are visible on the object upon which the lyre rests. What the object is intended to be is uncertain, since it bears no resemblance in the slightest to the tree stump of the original. In the majority of examples it seems to be a cippus or a tripod, although Cohen described it quite wrongly as an altar and RIC, equally wrongly as a rock."

The statue pictured below, "The Apollo of Cyrene" which is now in the British Museum, is believed to be a copy of the original work.

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Re: Unpublished Gallienus?
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2006, 04:48:48 pm »
Thank you very much for your help! And a special thank to Alex for his interesting information!

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