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Coin ID #7818

Samos (AD 198-209) AE 16 - Geta as Caesar

Geta as Caesar, 198-209 AD. AE16 (3.18g). AV K - AI ΓETAC, head right / CAM-IΩN, river-god Imbrasos reclining left, wearing himation, nude to hips, holding reed in right hand and resting left elbow on cornucopiae and vase from which water flows left. About VF. Hoeft coll.

In the marshes at the mouth of the river Imbrasos, the Ionian colonists under Proklos are said to have found a wooden image of Hera which was caught in a willow brushwood. Therefore, they built an altar beside this tree. From this altar the famous temple of Hera, the Heraion, originated. Imbrasos himself had a daughter Okyrrhoe by the Samian nymph Chesias (a hypostasis of the goddess Artemis). Okyrrhoe later was seduced by Apollo (Aelian, Hist.animal. 15.23).

File information
Filename:samos_geta_SNGcop1744.jpg
City/Mint name:Samos
Keywords:roman / bronze
References:SNG Copenhagen 1744
Valuation:Sold $150, Vcoins
Photo courtesy of: Ancient Resource - www.vcoins.com/ancient/ancientresource
Filesize:33 KiB
Date added:Nov 06, 2010
Dimensions:517 x 248 pixels
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