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This one is not Roman, although probably Roman Provincial given the dating, but I still struggle with that definition. I call it Greek and it was in the Greek section. I literally just ordered it from Forum yesterday. I ordered it more because it is a mint I wanted and is nice while being inexpensive, not necessarily due to the images on it. I wanted a new coin and had very little money, LOL, and I like this one and have missed it before. I need to look, but I have a few more Greeks that have similar or funeral type images, all IIRC from Asia Minor.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.
GB93605. Bronze AE 21, SNG Levante 940; SNG BnF 1321 - 22; SNG Cop 333 var. ff. (different controls); BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 95 var. ff. (same), VF, dark patina with highlighting red earthen deposits, bumps, porosity, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, weight 6.871g, maximum diameter 20.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 164 - 27 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; reverse Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle, two monograms over filleted club on left, TAPΣEΩN downward on right; from the Errett Bishop Collection.
This is Forum's image.
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