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Coin Type: Bronze tetrassarion of Trebonianus Gallus, 251-253 CE Mint and Date: Antioch, 251-253 CE. Size and Weight: 24mm, 6.90g Obverse: AVTOK K Γ OVIB TPЄB ΓAΛΛOC CЄB Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind. Reverse: ANTIOXЄΩN MHTPO KOΛON Δ - Є and S - C across fields. Apollo standing facing, head left, holding a patera in his right hand and a kithara in his left; at lower right, a snake coiled around the omphalos. Provenance: grotjohann-coins (1383) (eBay), January 2010; ex CNG's Triton VIII sale on 4 January 2010, coin ID A130 from Lot no. 1396; sold there as from the A. K. collection. Ref: Lindgren & Kovacs 2026; McAlee 1186 BW Ref: 009 047 153 |
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Note 1: This Apollo is a representation of the cult statue by Bryaxis, which was situated in a temple of Apollo in Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, early in the 3rd century BCE. It can also be seen on a bronze nummus issued under Maximinus II. Note 2: Many coins of Antioch have the Greek letters Delta Epsilon across the field, and many have the Roman letters S C. This coin has both. The S C probably stands for Senatus Consulto, as it does on the Roman Imperial bronze coinage. | |
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