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Author Topic: 2360 PHRYGIA, Hydrela Hadrian, Mên riding holding?  (Read 719 times)

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2360 PHRYGIA, Hydrela Hadrian, Mên riding holding?
« on: November 18, 2018, 08:00:16 am »
Dear cf,

Here a rare and unique piece, i see a trident, however i can not find a trident, combined with Phrygia Mên
a nice link on the reverse, holding a double axe (Bipennis)


http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1396/


2360 PHRYGIA, Hydrela Hadrian, Mên riding
Reference.
RPC III, 2360; = R. Pace, ‘Una moneta inedita di Hydrela’, Panorama Numismatico 112/97, pp. 18-9.

Magistrate   Apellas Athènagorou

Obv.   ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟС
Laureate head of Hadrian, right

Rev.   ΑΠΕΛΛΑС ΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ΥΔΡΗΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Mên riding r., holding trident over l. shoulder.

10.52 gr
25 mm

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Re: 2360 PHRYGIA, Hydrela Hadrian, Mên riding holding?
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2018, 09:56:26 am »
Nice find, never seen before. Even Roscher doesn't mention a Men with trident.

Jochen
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Re: 2360 PHRYGIA, Hydrela Hadrian, Mên riding holding?
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2018, 10:13:02 am »
thank you Jochen,

one day a better specimen with confirm it, who knows
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