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Feel I should not this, but drawing a blank..   Edit: 6.49g 22mm Edited by pishpash
01/16/2014 08:17 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Have you looked into Marcus Aurelius or Commodus?
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Pillar of the Community
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That's a very young looking bust of him.
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Pillar of the Community
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It is. Not sure I have the correct match.
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Probably young Marcus as Caesar. You might need to search under Antoninus.
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I think it is provincial, not imperial, which makes it many times as hard to attribute.
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Yes it is provincial. It would help if I could find the reverse. I am calling it a torch, but I have yet to find something similar with what appears to be a "bow". A real puzzler.  |
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Looks like it might the staff of Aesclepius.
"The most famous temple of Asclepius was at Epidaurus in north-eastern Peloponnese. Another famous healing temple (or asclepieion) was located on the island of Kos, where Hippocrates, the legendary "father of medicine", may have begun his career. Other asclepieia were situated in Trikala, Gortys (in Arcadia), and Pergamum in Asia."
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 that was my first thought. |
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I have searched for caduceus, kerykeion, Aesclepius, Asklepios and torch. All to no avail, I have looked at everyone I can think of who had curly hair.  |
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It is a very young Commodus and the torch is a Thyrsos or Thyrsus. After three months of searching I have found it on acsearch, unfortunately the description is in German and google translate is not coping well! http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=15493It is nice to stick a label on him. |
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Sometimes we stumble upon the answer, It's happened to me several times that after a long search and not finding the reference, out of the blue it shows.
Your coin is from Hadrianpolis Varbanov 1673. Dionysos leaning against a pillar.
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Thanks Echizento, I got that bit. Apparently he is wearing a tank and something else!
Thanks for the link chrsmat, everyone seemed to think it was Commodus, I just couldn't find the right coin until yesterday.
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Posted 01/16/2014 2:10 pm
