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A bronze coin of Elaea showing Roma or Athena and Telesphoros Coin Type: Bronze semi-autonomous AE14 of Elaea in Aeolis.
Mint and Date: Elaea, 2nd century CE, time of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
Size and Weight: 14mm, 1.72g
Obverse: Helmeted bust of Roma or Athena right, wearing a crested helmet and a bilobed aegis with central gorgoneion and two snakes rising from the far side.
Reverse: ЄΛA - ITΩN
Telesphoros standing facing, draped in a concealing hooded robe.
Provenance: galeriaantica (eBay), January 2007
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 188-189
BW Ref: 002 030 099
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Note: The same Athena can be seen on these two coins: Trajan, Herakleia Pontika; semi-autonomous, Thyateira. Several other semi-autonomous coins from Asia have the same type.

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