I just received a marvelous coin
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=186129 to add to my
collection of coins depicting the historical amazons, Scythian
horse warrior women.
Kyme,
AeolisAE 19
70-73 AD
Laureate
head of
Vespasian r. ΒΑϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΑ
The Amazon Kyme standing l., holding globe and trident, ΑΝΘΥ ΕΠΡΙΩ ΜΑΡΚΕΛΛΩ ΤΟ Γ ΚΥ
RPC II 970,
Cop 144;
Stumpf 319
Adrienne Mayor's The Amazons has a section on the amazons at sea, but that does not share much light on this coin. The amazon queen Kyme was the legendary founder of the city Cyme on the Black Sea coast. The engraver portrays an historical accurate amazon wearing a short dress, trousers, belt and baldric, and a Scythian
gorytos (quiver) on her left hip. He has added a crown, as befits the notion of a queen.
