Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction X 27 September 2015
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Stag kneeling left, head reverted, E- Φ across fields, CΚωΠΙ below / ΚΗΡΙΛΙC ωΔΕ ΠΡΟC ΠΑΛVPΙΝ, bee. BMC Ionia p, 70, 186; Barclay Head, "Ephesian Tesserae," in NC 1908, pp. 281-286; SNG Copenhagen 355; SNG von Aulock 1875; SNG München 98. 3.46g, 22mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
A plausible theory put foreword after a discussion with the eminent Cambridge classical scholar and coin collector Arthur Bernard Cook, by H.M. Ransome in her excellent study on bees in antiquity: The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, Mineola 1937, reprinted 2004, pp. 59-60, where Cook gives a possible interpretation to the legend as: 'This is how Mistress Beeswax looked at the Hive-shaker', suggesting that these tesserae were druggists' for the purpose of advertising the sale of beeswax, connected to the secret rites of Artemis. Another theory links the obverse legend CΚωΠΙ to the Greek noun σκοπός ('view, look') an allusion to the 'evil eye' against which many amulets were intended in ancient and modern times, a possible interpretation being; 'This, as a coating toward the disease,' with ΠΑΛVΡΙΝ being a corruption of palurion, some type of disease.
Very Fine.
A plausible theory put foreword after a discussion with the eminent Cambridge classical scholar and coin collector Arthur Bernard Cook, by H.M. Ransome in her excellent study on bees in antiquity: The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, Mineola 1937, reprinted 2004, pp. 59-60, where Cook gives a possible interpretation to the legend as: 'This is how Mistress Beeswax looked at the Hive-shaker', suggesting that these tesserae were druggists' for the purpose of advertising the sale of beeswax, connected to the secret rites of Artemis. Another theory links the obverse legend CΚωΠΙ to the Greek noun σκοπός ('view, look') an allusion to the 'evil eye' against which many amulets were intended in ancient and modern times, a possible interpretation being; 'This, as a coating toward the disease,' with ΠΑΛVΡΙΝ being a corruption of palurion, some type of disease.