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<p>[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 7781157, member: 112342"]Telesphorus is the god of convalescence, a fitting coin for today's world (while we are still not out of the woods yet, at least we have a way out (vaccines) that we didn't have this time last year.</p><p>I saw a coin of Telesphorus many moons ago on this site and thought what a curious coin, but at that time when I looked up on ebay and vcoins, they were all overpriced (idk if those types were really rare) so I didn't buy one. However early this month I came across this coin on an ebay auction, so I put a last second bid and won this for just 15 usd! </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1334938[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I initially thought this belonged to the BC era Greece, but after a bit of digging I found out it's actually a Roman era coin from the Conventus of Pergamum.</p><p>Issued under Antoninus Pius,</p><p>Magistrate- I. Pol(l)ion (strategos for the second time, asiarch and neokoros)</p><p>147-161 AD</p><p>Obverse- ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩN. bust of Athena.</p><p>Reverse- ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Ι ΠΩΛΛΙΩ ΤΟ Β. Telesphorus standing, facing.</p><p>2.12g</p><p>Post your Telesphorus or any creepy looking coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 7781157, member: 112342"]Telesphorus is the god of convalescence, a fitting coin for today's world (while we are still not out of the woods yet, at least we have a way out (vaccines) that we didn't have this time last year. I saw a coin of Telesphorus many moons ago on this site and thought what a curious coin, but at that time when I looked up on ebay and vcoins, they were all overpriced (idk if those types were really rare) so I didn't buy one. However early this month I came across this coin on an ebay auction, so I put a last second bid and won this for just 15 usd! [ATTACH=full]1334938[/ATTACH] I initially thought this belonged to the BC era Greece, but after a bit of digging I found out it's actually a Roman era coin from the Conventus of Pergamum. Issued under Antoninus Pius, Magistrate- I. Pol(l)ion (strategos for the second time, asiarch and neokoros) 147-161 AD Obverse- ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩN. bust of Athena. Reverse- ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Ι ΠΩΛΛΙΩ ΤΟ Β. Telesphorus standing, facing. 2.12g Post your Telesphorus or any creepy looking coins![/QUOTE]
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