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Author Topic: Bosporos? Vandal? Goth?  (Read 445 times)

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Offline laney

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Bosporos? Vandal? Goth?
« on: March 22, 2015, 09:35:13 am »
AE 18.5 mm; 5.85 g

Primitive looking, with some lettering beside and below the strange spikey advancing figure on reverse.  Help would be much appreciated.
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Re: Bosporos? Vandal? Goth?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2015, 10:00:08 am »
The reverse figure shows Apollo Propylaios (Propylaeus, Propyläus), typically shown on coins from Pisidia, which have a certain unconventional style.  A quick look in Isegrim shows no coins with a female bust left. There are coins of Tranquillina, with bust right but they look very different. This doesn't have to be an empress, it could also be Artemis or so.
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Re: Bosporos? Vandal? Goth?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2015, 01:22:10 pm »
Try Chesonesus up in the Crimea.
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