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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Asia| > SH63417
Titus, 24 June 79 - 13 September 81 A.D., Koinon of Galatia
|Roman| |Asia|, |Titus,| |24| |June| |79| |-| |13| |September| |81| |A.D.,| |Koinon| |of| |Galatia|, Luna, the Greek moon-goddess, was female, which seems natural because the female menstrual cycle follows the lunar month. But Mên was a male moon-god, probably originally of the indigenous non-Greek Karian people. By Roman times Mên was worshiped across Anatolia and in Attica. He was associated with fertility, healing, and punishment. Mên is usually depicted with a crescent moon behind his shoulders, wearing a Phrygian cap, and holding a lance or sword in one hand and a pine-cone or patera in the other. His other attributes include the bucranium and chicken. A temple of Mên has been excavated at Antiochia, Pisidia.
SH63417. Brass AE 26, RPC II 1621; SNG Cop 107; SNGvA 6133, BMC Galatia p. 8, 1; Arslan Roman 19; SNG Leypold -, Nice F, Ancyra (Ankara, Turkey) mint, weight 9.993g, maximum diameter 26.4mm, die axis 15o, as caesar, 69 - 79 A.D.; obverse AYTOKPA TITOΣ KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣ YIOΣ, laureate head right; reverse ΣABAΣTHNΩN TEKTOΣAΓΩN, Mên standing left, wearing a Phrygian cap, crescent behind shoulders, phiale extended in right; ex Frank L. Kovacs; rare; SOLD











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