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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5409610, member: 110350"]Thank you. A very interesting post and thread. Which raises at least one other question. Apparently, the Tyche (or city goddess) of Antioch was typically portrayed holding a palm branch. On my coin, according to the descriptions (and what I can see myself), what she holds is not a palm branch, but is composed of ears of wheat and at least one poppy. Does that suggest that the coin is not actually from Antioch?</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: to answer my own question, it seems not. According to RPC, all the Provincial coins depicting Tyche and Orontes were issued in Antioch. The ones issued by Augustus all show Tyche holding a palm branch. The ones issued by Trajan and Hadrian all show her holding two ears of wheat and a poppy. The ones issued by Marcus Aurelius show her holding just the two ears of wheat. The ones issued by Trajan Decius and Trebonianus Gallus all show a statue of Tyche and Orontes inside a temple, with no indication of what Tyche is holding, if anything. And the anonymous civic coinage of Antioch issued during the reign of Maximinus II all appears to show her holding ears of wheat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5409610, member: 110350"]Thank you. A very interesting post and thread. Which raises at least one other question. Apparently, the Tyche (or city goddess) of Antioch was typically portrayed holding a palm branch. On my coin, according to the descriptions (and what I can see myself), what she holds is not a palm branch, but is composed of ears of wheat and at least one poppy. Does that suggest that the coin is not actually from Antioch? Edited to add: to answer my own question, it seems not. According to RPC, all the Provincial coins depicting Tyche and Orontes were issued in Antioch. The ones issued by Augustus all show Tyche holding a palm branch. The ones issued by Trajan and Hadrian all show her holding two ears of wheat and a poppy. The ones issued by Marcus Aurelius show her holding just the two ears of wheat. The ones issued by Trajan Decius and Trebonianus Gallus all show a statue of Tyche and Orontes inside a temple, with no indication of what Tyche is holding, if anything. And the anonymous civic coinage of Antioch issued during the reign of Maximinus II all appears to show her holding ears of wheat.[/QUOTE]
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