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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4508551, member: 82322"]This Zeus/Perseus coin from Iconium is different. The inscription is ICONI COL. It is pseudo-autonomous as a Roman colony, not a Greek issue with IKONIЄΩN.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1117494[/ATTACH] </p><p>Lykaonia. Iconion. Pseudo-autonomous issue AD 100-200. Bronze Æ 17 mm., 3,10 g.</p><p>Obv: bust of Hercules/Heracles (bearded) wearing lion-skin, r.; to l., club</p><p>Rev: ICONI COL; nude Perseus standing, facing, head, r., wearing helmet, holding Medusa-head, harpa (or kibisis?) and chlamys</p><p>Ref: von Aulock <i>Lykonians</i> 300; RPC online <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4842/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4842/" rel="nofollow">temporary 4842</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's rare. Von Aulock only knew of one and there are only two in RPC online. I have seen several lately for sale with the Roman-era inscription not noted.</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC online just calls it "2nd century" but a major new article, in German, by Hans Christoph von Mosch (of Gorny and Mosch), "Perseus und Andromeda (vormals) in Ikonion. die bilder der „bilderstadt“ und ein besuch Gordians iii. im Jahre 239/40" in _Festschrift Johannes Nollé_ places the issue to the time of Antoninus Pius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4508551, member: 82322"]This Zeus/Perseus coin from Iconium is different. The inscription is ICONI COL. It is pseudo-autonomous as a Roman colony, not a Greek issue with IKONIЄΩN. [ATTACH=full]1117494[/ATTACH] Lykaonia. Iconion. Pseudo-autonomous issue AD 100-200. Bronze Æ 17 mm., 3,10 g. Obv: bust of Hercules/Heracles (bearded) wearing lion-skin, r.; to l., club Rev: ICONI COL; nude Perseus standing, facing, head, r., wearing helmet, holding Medusa-head, harpa (or kibisis?) and chlamys Ref: von Aulock [I]Lykonians[/I] 300; RPC online [URL='http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4842/']temporary 4842[/URL]. It's rare. Von Aulock only knew of one and there are only two in RPC online. I have seen several lately for sale with the Roman-era inscription not noted. RPC online just calls it "2nd century" but a major new article, in German, by Hans Christoph von Mosch (of Gorny and Mosch), "Perseus und Andromeda (vormals) in Ikonion. die bilder der „bilderstadt“ und ein besuch Gordians iii. im Jahre 239/40" in _Festschrift Johannes Nollé_ places the issue to the time of Antoninus Pius.[/QUOTE]
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