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Another Lysippic Weary Herakles
« on: July 03, 2012, 01:46:13 am »
Though I already had a rather different looking specimen, I wanted to be sure of die identity--that is, identical die-pairing.  This one does answer my questions, permitting me to offer one general statement a little more confidently in writing up the quasi-catalog for the Tertulllus coins to accompany the series of Essays already posted in Blogspot.  We hope to post the whole in my Forum site.
From the beginning I have been interested in famous statuary types shown on coins.  That we also have full-size copies and variants of these gives us a "control" of their representation on coins.
The coins issued by Tertullus are more distinctive, as a group, than most others.

So, here is my new one:
HERAKLES, WEARY (LYSIPPIC)  Septimius
VPA•OOVI•TERTVLLOV•NIKOPO PROS I•
HrJ 8.14.14.3  Pick 1275

Two more specimens:
http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3106822177890961016#editor/target=post;postID=5121102627798915226

For its place among the Tertullus coins here considered:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102498681030579488308/TERTULLUSSTUDYGROUP

Pat Lawrence
Zoom for best resolution, the coin having been varnished like Woolworth costume jewelry.

 

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