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BOSPORAN KINGDOM -- Queen GepaepyrisBOSPORAN KINGDOM -- Queen Gepaepyris (37-39 AD) AE23 12 Nummi. BACIΛICCHC ΓHΠAIΠYPEΩC, diademed draped bust right / IB, veiled bust of Aphrodite Urania right, wearing calathus. MacDonald 306, Anokhin 326 var. dpaul7
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Gepaepyris, wife of Aspurgus, with stepson, Mithradates.Bosphorus Kingdom. Æ 12 nummia (24 mm).
Obv: BACILEWC MIQRADATOU, Diad. hd. of Mithradates, r.
Rev: BACILLICCHC GHPAPUREWC, Diad., dr. bust of Queen Gepaepyris, r.; before IB. SNG XI 968. Similar to
Anokhin Bosphorus 331; SGI 5433; BMC 13.51, 5.
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Kingdom of Bosporus, Queen Gepaepyris, Anokhin 326 var.Gepaepyris, AD 37-39
AE 23 (12 nummi), 8.4g
obv. BACILICCHC GHPAIPYREWC
Bust, draped and diademed, r.
rev . Bust of Aphrodite Urania, wearing kalathos and veil, r.
IB before
MacDonald 306; RPC I, 1907 var., Anokhin 326 var.; (They all have IB behind!)
about VF, brown patina with some green highlights
The chief deity of the whole Bosporan kingdom was no doubt Aphrodite Urania: the centre of her worship was on the east side of the strait where she had a temple in Phanagoria and one called the Apatourou on the south side of Lake Corocondamitis: after this sanctuary she is described in inscriptions as Αpatourias or more often Apatorou Medousa [Minns 1913 p. 618].
For more informations please look at the thread 'Mythological interesting coins'.
Jochen
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