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The Amazon Kyme with Trident and Globe, AE19 Kyem, Aeolis, under Vespasian

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Blindado:
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, Aeolis
AE 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.

Meepzorp:
Hi Blind,

Nice coin! :)

Meepzorp

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