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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Hadrianopolis| > RP89895
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Hadrianopolis, Thrace
|Hadrianopolis|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| || |217| |A.D.,| |Hadrianopolis,| |Thrace|, The figure on the reverse is sometimes identified as Eros (Cupid) or a generic winged Genius. The inverted torch represents a life extinguished, indicating the figure is Thanatos (death). By the Severan Era, there was increased hope for an afterlife in pleasant Elysium rather than in dismal Hades. Thanatos was associated more with a gentle passing than a woeful demise. Thanatos as a winged boy, very much akin to Cupid, with crossed legs and an inverted torch, became the most common symbol for death, depicted on many Roman sarcophagi.
RP89895. Bronze AE 20, Jurukova Hadrianopolis 390 (V199/R379), Varbanov II 3526 (R4), SNG Cop 571, BMC Thrace -, VF, brown tone, attractive style, slightly ragged flan with small edge splits, Hadrianopolis (Edirne, Turkey) mint, weight 3.986g, maximum diameter 19.6mm, die axis 30o, obverse AVT K M AVP C EV - ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head right; reverse AΔPIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Thanatos standing right, winged, legs crossed, leaning on inverted extinguished torch; SOLD










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