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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP84156
Diadumenian, Mid May - 8 June 218 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Diadumenian,| |Mid| |May| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Diana is depicted here in the same pose as The Diana of Versailles, a slightly over life-size Roman marble statue from the 1st or 2nd century A.D., copying a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 B.C. The sculpture may have come from a sanctuary at Nemi or possibly from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. In 1556, it was given by Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France, a subtle allusion to the king's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
RP84156. Bronze triassarion, H-J Marcianopolis 6.25.13.2 (R3); Varbanov I 1311 (R3); AMNG I/I 787; BMC Thrace p. 33, 40; SNG Cop -, VF, grainy, large flan split/crack, central cavities, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 8.989g, maximum diameter 24.1mm, die axis 0o, as caesar, May 217 - mid May 218 A.D.; obverse M K OΠEΛAION ANTΩNEINOC K, Bare headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, from the front; reverse MAPKIANO-ΠOΛEITΩN, Artemis advancing right, bow in left hand, drawing arrow from quiver with right hand, hound at feet springing right on her far side, Γ (mark of value) behind; SOLD











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