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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 26222733, member: 128351"]Superb tetradrachm ! Because this coin is dated from the "Victory era" the corn-ears in the Tyche's hand have been replaced by a palm, symbol of victory. It's funny to see that the views of this statue on coins are sometimes seen from the left, the right, or from front. The statue by Eutychides was remembered as late as the 13th c. On the Peutinger Map, a 13th c. copy of a late Roman road map of the world from Britain to India, three cities only are figured by an enthroned personification : Rome, Constantinople and Antioch. The personification of Antioch is not, at first sight, the Tyche of Eutychides : it derives from the enthroned Justinian we can see on folles of "Theoupolis", the new name of Antioch refounded by this emperor c. 538. On the Peutinger Map (or its source, which therefore should be some 6th c. document, like the Madaba Mosaic Map) the enthroned Justinian was understood as the personification of Antioch, and modified in order to resemble the old Eutychides statue : at the feet of the enthroned personification of the city, there is a smaller nude young male character extending his arms : obviously the swimming Orontes of Eutychides' statue... [ATTACH=full]1674717[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]