This was one of my first coins I attributed myself. I had such trouble trying to understand what I was looking at on the reverse. Everything I could come up with yielded no results. I thought it was a veiled person, a statue of some kind, a "Home Alone Kid" nothing. Ultimately I ended up recognizing the Obverse as a young Geta from another coin. This Reverse device eluded me for quite sometime. At the end of the day I just scrolled through every "Geta" I could find.
This is what I was able to come up with...
Geta, AE18 of Nicaea, Bithynia. 2.38g.
L CEPT GETAC K, bare-headed, draped bust right,
NIKAIEWN, Telesphoros standing facing, wearing
hooded cloak.
Recueil Général 511 cf (obv. legend); Mionnet Supp. V, 716 var
The reverse Icon ended up being whats called a Telesphoros. I found this...credit to wikipedia...
"In Greek mythology, Telesphorus (or Telesphoros; Τελεσφόρος) was a son of Asclepius. He frequently accompanied his sister, Hygieia. He was a dwarf whose head was always covered with a hood or cap. He symbolized recovery from illness, as his name means "the accomplisher" or "bringer of completion" in Greek. Representations of him are found mainly in Anatolia and along the Danube.
Telesphorus is assumed to have been a Celtic god in origin, who was taken to Anatolia by the Galatians in the 3rd century BC, where he would have become associated with the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius, perhaps in Pergamon, an Asclepian cult center. and spread again to the West due to the rise of the Roman Empire, in particular during the 2nd century AD, from the reign of Hadrian, after Epidaurus, the main center of the cult of Asclepius, had adopted him.[1]"
There is not much here, I was wondering if anyone can add anything here. It seriously took me weeks to figure this out.
