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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Bithynia| > RP99135
Diadumenian, Mid May - 8 June 218 A.D., Prusa ad Olympum, Bithynia
|Bithynia|, |Diadumenian,| |Mid| |May| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.,| |Prusa| |ad| |Olympum,| |Bithynia|, Ajax was considered the second-best hero at Troy, after his cousin Achilles. Once Achilles dies, Ajax and Odysseus debate over who should receive his armor. When Odysseus is given the armor, Ajax goes mad. He kills Greek cattle believing that it is the Greek warriors. After he becomes aware of what he has done, he commits suicide. Ajax believes that after the cattle incident, killing himself is the only way to keep his status as a hero and to avoid bringing shame to his noble father Telamon.
RP99135. Bronze diassarion, Rec Gén II-4 p. 592, 123; SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, BMC Bithynia -, Lindgren -, F, green patina, light encrustations/deposits, areas of porosity, scratches, off center on a broad flan, Prusa ad Olympum, Bithynia mint, weight 7.535g, maximum diameter 26.7mm, die axis 180o, as caesar, May 217 - mid May 218 A.D.; obverse M OΠEΛ ANTΩNINOC ΔIAΔOYMENIANOC, bare head right; reverse ΠPOYCAEΩN, Ajax falling on his sword to commit suicide, kneeling left before a rocky outcropping, nude but for crested helmet and balteus, shield and cuirass on ground before him; Coin Archives records only one specimen of the type at auction in the last two decades; extremely rare; SOLD










OBVERSE LEGENDS

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MOPELANTDIADVMENIANCAES
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