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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Cilicia| > RP89900
Tarsos, Cilicia, 27 B.C. - 192 A.D.
|Cilicia|, |Tarsos,| |Cilicia,| |27| |B.C.| |-| |192| |A.D.|, According to BMC Cilicia, Tarsos assumed the title ΜΗTPOΠOΛIΣ (metropolis) in early Imperial times and issued pseudo autonomous types at least down to the time of Commodus.

Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.
RP89900. Bronze AE 17, SNG Levante 970 (same dies), SNG BnF 1305, BMC Lycaonia - ; SNG Cop -, aVF, dark green patina with attractive earthen highlighting, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, weight 2.664g, maximum diameter 17.2mm, die axis 0o, 27 B.C. - 192 A.D.; obverse turreted head of Tyche (city goddess) right, monogram behind, bead and reel border; reverse Sandan standing right on a horned goat-like animal walking right, MH/TPO (metropolis) in two lines upper left, TAPΣEΩN (clockwise on right); rare; SOLD











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