Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XI 7 April 2016
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Marcus Aurelius Æ28 of Corinth, Corinthia. AD 161-180. M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder / CLI COR, Melikertes-Palaimon lying on the back of a dolphin swimming right; pine-tree behind. BCD Corinth -; BMC 611 var.; SNG Copenhagen -; Edwards -; F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner, A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, JHS London 1885-7, pp. 10-11, pl. B, I-II. 13.87g, 27mm, 10h.
Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, and one of the best preserved of all Corinthian imperial bronzes.
Pausanias travelling to Corinth in the 2nd century AD observed: 'In the Corinthian territory is also the place called Cromyon from Cromus the son of Poseidon. Here they say that Phaea was bred; overcoming this sow was one of the traditional achievements of Theseus. Farther on the pine still grew by the shore at the time of my visit, and there was an altar of Melikertes. At this place, they say, the boy was brought ashore by a dolphin; Sisyphus found him lying and gave him burial on the Isthmus, establishing the Isthmian games in his honour'. - Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.1.3, with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod, London 1918.
Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, and one of the best preserved of all Corinthian imperial bronzes.
Pausanias travelling to Corinth in the 2nd century AD observed: 'In the Corinthian territory is also the place called Cromyon from Cromus the son of Poseidon. Here they say that Phaea was bred; overcoming this sow was one of the traditional achievements of Theseus. Farther on the pine still grew by the shore at the time of my visit, and there was an altar of Melikertes. At this place, they say, the boy was brought ashore by a dolphin; Sisyphus found him lying and gave him burial on the Isthmus, establishing the Isthmian games in his honour'. - Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.1.3, with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod, London 1918.