Watch List notes:

MACEDON. Amphipolis. Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. (Bronze, 23 mm, 8.32 g, 12 h). ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ Bare head of Augustus to right. Rev. AΜΦΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ Artemis Tauropolos, holding billowing veil in both hands, on bull with headdress of Isis running right. BMC 73. RPC I 1626. SNG Copenhagen 89. Well centered and with a green patina. Very fine.


For the iconography of the bull wearing the headdress of Isis, see R. Veymiers, "Le basileion, les reines et Actium", in L. Bricault & M.J. Versluys (eds.), Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis, Leiden 2014, p. 195-236.