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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3343370, member: 103829"]Troas, Alexandreia, Caracalla, AD 198-217</p><p>AE 24, 8.48g, 23.9mm, 210°</p><p>Alexandreia, AD 214-8. April 2017</p><p>obv. M AVRE - ANTONINVS - IOV</p><p>Bust, cuirassed, laureate, r.</p><p>rev. COL - ALEXAN - D - AVG</p><p>Eagle flying r., holding head and neck of bull in talons</p><p>ref.: cf. Bellinger A302 (Type 47); cf. SNG Copenhagen 139 (obv. legend); cf. BMC Troas p.21, 98 (same); cf. SNG Canakkale 323 (same); SNG von Aulock -, SNG München -, SNG Tübingen -, et al. -</p><p>rare, nice F, portrait!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]885413[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse legend dates this coin to after 214, when Caracalla renamed the city from Colonia Augusta Troadensium to Colonia Alexandria Augusta.</p><p>This obverse legend ending in IOV is apparently an unpublished mint error.</p><p><br /></p><p>The depiction is referring to the founder myth of Alexandria: The eagle carrying a bull's head which is a common occurence from now [Commodus Caesar] on, must refer to a foundation legend, like that told of Antioch on the Orontes, of an eagle carrying part of a sacrificial animal to a spot where the new city was destined to raise (Bellinger).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3343370, member: 103829"]Troas, Alexandreia, Caracalla, AD 198-217 AE 24, 8.48g, 23.9mm, 210° Alexandreia, AD 214-8. April 2017 obv. M AVRE - ANTONINVS - IOV Bust, cuirassed, laureate, r. rev. COL - ALEXAN - D - AVG Eagle flying r., holding head and neck of bull in talons ref.: cf. Bellinger A302 (Type 47); cf. SNG Copenhagen 139 (obv. legend); cf. BMC Troas p.21, 98 (same); cf. SNG Canakkale 323 (same); SNG von Aulock -, SNG München -, SNG Tübingen -, et al. - rare, nice F, portrait! [ATTACH=full]885413[/ATTACH] The reverse legend dates this coin to after 214, when Caracalla renamed the city from Colonia Augusta Troadensium to Colonia Alexandria Augusta. This obverse legend ending in IOV is apparently an unpublished mint error. The depiction is referring to the founder myth of Alexandria: The eagle carrying a bull's head which is a common occurence from now [Commodus Caesar] on, must refer to a foundation legend, like that told of Antioch on the Orontes, of an eagle carrying part of a sacrificial animal to a spot where the new city was destined to raise (Bellinger).[/QUOTE]
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