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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4730051, member: 99456&quot;]<span style="color: #b30000">right facing helmeted bust</span> (Athena on reverse)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158056[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lykaonia, Iconium, <b>Antoninus Pius</b>, AD 138-161, Bronze Æ</p><p><b>Obv:</b> ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Antoninus Pius right.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> COL ICO, helmeted and draped bust of Athena right</p><p><b>Ref:</b> <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7259" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7259" rel="nofollow">RPC IV online 7259</a></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">“John Malalas narrates Perseus’ progress through Asia Minor as a sort of mythological projection of a Hellenistic king’s campaign of conquest and foundation. On arrival in Lycaonia Perseus founds a city on the site of the village of Amandra.&nbsp; The new city takes its name, Iconium (modern Konya) from the ‘image’ (εικόν) of the Gorgon-head he sets up on a pillar there.”</font></p><p><font size="4">- <a href="https://archive.org/details/learnislampdfenglishbookgodsandheroesoftheancientworld/page/n143/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/learnislampdfenglishbookgodsandheroesoftheancientworld/page/n143/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Perseus by Daniel Ogden</a></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>Next: </b>another helmeted bust (left or right, obverse or reverse)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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