I do not have many provincials and the Artemis reverse made this one a must have! Share your Ehesos coins! Severus Alexander. IONIA, Ephesus. AD 222-235. Æ 20mm (4.72 grams). O: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind RX: Artemis standing right, seizing stag by the horns. SNG München -; SNG Copenhagen 464
Cool coin @TJC ! Not an Artemis from Ephesos, but how about a couple BEES & Stags? Iona-Ephesos AR Obol Bee - opposing stag heads 340 BCE Seaby Iona-Ephesos AR Hemi-Drachm-TriObol Bee - Incuse Sq TIMESIANAX 335-320 BCE Seaby 4368 And I DO have an Artemis siezing a Stag reverse, but from Hierocaesarea: RI Prv Lydia Hierocaesarea 54-59 CE Capito under Nero Artemis killing STAG RPC 1 2391-2 fin
That is a very special reverse type. I wonder i there is a statue of that pose. My best Ephesos is this AE30 of Domna. Diadumenian from Marcianopolis has Artemis hunting with bow.
That's definitely an notable scene There are so many coins of Ephesus on my wish list. So far I just have one and it's a token or tessera rather than coin. IONIA, Ephesus. Anoynmous c. CE 1st century Æ tessera, 19mm, 5.14 g Obv: CKωΠI, stage kneeling left, head right; E to left, Φ to right Rev: KHPIΛICωΔEΠPOCΠAΛVPIN surrounding a bee Ref: SNG Copenhagen 355; BMC 186; SNG von Aulock 1875 Theories of their purpose are interesting. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-magical-tessera.277808/
..now that you mention it, i remember seeing one, but it was of a different deity and a bull.. i can picture it, but can't recall the name right off...it was found under modern day Rome...
I have a similar large bronze of Julia Domna with a carpentum on the reverse. Mine, though, has the empress's earlier hairstyle and a different obverse legend: Julia Domna, AD 193-217. Roman AE 32 mm, 13.72 g. Ionia, Ephesus, AD 193-217. Obv: CЄBACTH IOY ΔOMNA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: ЄΦЄϹΙΩΝ TPIC NЄΩKOPΩN, carpentum drawn right by two mules. Refs: SNG Copenhagen 417; BMC 267 var. (obv legend).
Here is another coin with Artemis killing a stag, this time from Cherson in Crimea in the north Black Sea. Coins of ancient Cherson are scarce and often in low grade. The primary reference is Anokhin's book, The Coinage of Chersonesus, which is in Russian and has been translated into English by H. Bartlett Wells (BAR International Series 69, 1980). 22-19 mm. 2:00. 5.21 grams. Possibly time of Caracalla. Bull butting right. EΛEVΘ-EP AC in ex. [Eleutheria = "Freedom" in Greek] XEPCON-H... ("Cherson ..) Anokhin 293 variety (293 is both lighter in weight and smaller in diameter, although it can be impossible to tell since Anokhin's images are not always life size. They are often somewhat larger than the coin. Since his image of 293 is significantly smaller than this coin, I conclude they are not the same denomination.) BMC Thrace --, Stancomb --, SNG BM Black Sea --, SNG Pushkin -- Cherson received "freedom" or "independence" under Antoninus Pius. After that, the city's coins often mention "freedom." However, the lack of an imperial name or any other identification of a date means they must be dated by other means. Anokhin seems to use the criterion that cruder is later (which seems justified) but picks time spans of arbitrary length for each type. I am not at all convinced we know when the types were issued.
that's a nice coin and is very similar, but i was talking about the statue of Mithras TJC posted afterwards...
It surprises me the few Mithra Coins out there. Yes, I understand that it is a secret religion, but it was pervasive in the Legions. I found this little guy some time ago, but I have not seen Mithra slaughtering his Bull on a coin. I believe this area is basically where Mithraism started. I understand it was a strong rival of Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire, due to its pervasive following in the Legions. Bithynia Kios 250 BCE AE11 1.06g Laureate hd Mithras r Kantharos 2 grape bunches hanging K-I below within a wreath SNG Cop 382
