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Lot 505

Estimate: 1000 USD
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Maximinus I Thrax. AE 32-35; Maximinus I Thrax; 235-238 AD, Anemurium, Cilicia, Year 1 = 235/6 AD, AE 32-35, 16.02g. SNG Paris-709 (same obv. die), SNG Levante-498 (same obv. die). Obv: [AV]T K G IO O - VHPON MA[?IMEINON] Bust radiate, cuirassed r., seen from front, Medusa head on breast. Rx: ANEMO - VPIEWN - ET A Perseus standing l., head r., cloak fluttering from r. shoulder, holding dagger (instead of his normal harpa) and frontal head of decapitated Medusa. Another specimen from different reverse die showing Perseus holding dagger with straight blade rather than harpa with hooked blade: Ziegler, Münzen Kilikiens aus kleineren deutschen Sammlungen, pl. 10, 208Usually on this coin Perseus holds a harpa, but on this specimen he holds a dagger . MS
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