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A bronze coin of Smyrna showing Kybele and Aphodite Stratonikis Coin Type: Bronze AE18 of Smyrna in Ionia, 2nd-1st century BCE
Mint and Date: Smyrna, ?
Size and Weight: 18mm, 6.32g
Obverse: Head of Kybele right, turreted.
Reverse: Statue of Aphrodite Stratonikis facing, head right, left arm resting on a column and holding small Nike; tall sceptre in right hand. Bird in right field.
ΣMYPNAIΩN to right, (?)EIΣIΣ and monogram to left.
Ref: GCV 4565 var. (different magistrate)
Provenance: frascatius (eBay), March 2006
BW Ref: 001 025 074
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