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Dynamis, Queen of the Cimmerian Bosphorus?Bosphorus/Pontus. Agrippias Caesaria ( Phanagoria). AE 8 nummia (19mm, 4.4 g), late 1st century BC.
Obv: Veiled and draped female bust, right.
Rev: AGRIPPEWN, Prow left, mark of value H in field at right.
RPC 1934-5; BMC 1.
RPC lists three possibilities for the Bust on the obverse: Livia, Aphrodite Urania, and Queen Dynamis. Popular opinion seems to be that the bust is that of Livia.
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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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Phanagoria - AE 133rd century BC
head of Silen wearing ivy-wreath right
bow and arrow
ΦA
SNG BM 994
1,81g 11mmJ. B.
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