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Corinthia. Corinth. Plautilla. Augusta AD 202-205. Struck circa AD 201-204
Diassarion (2 Assaria) Æ
22 mm, 4,94 g
PLAVTILLAE AVGVS[TAE], draped bust right / C[LI] COR (Colonia Laüs Iulia Corinthus), Pallas Athena standing facing, head to left, holding Victory in right hand over lighted altar, left resting on spear; at her feet, shield.
Nice chocolate-brown patina. Very fine.
RPC 76; BCD Corinth 951 (this coin).
Ex Lanz sale 105 (2001) 951.
From the BCD and Prof. Saul S. Weinberg collections.
From its destruction by Mummius in 146 BC, Corinth remained a heap of ruins for the space of one hundred years. In 44 BC Caesar sent a colony there (Colonia Laüs Iulia Corinthus), and the city became once more a flourishing place, as, from the natural advantages of its position, it could hardly have failed to become. Henceforth it struck bronze coins with Latin legends, [like here C. L. I. COR]. (Head, Digital Historia Numorum).
Diassarion (2 Assaria) Æ
22 mm, 4,94 g
PLAVTILLAE AVGVS[TAE], draped bust right / C[LI] COR (Colonia Laüs Iulia Corinthus), Pallas Athena standing facing, head to left, holding Victory in right hand over lighted altar, left resting on spear; at her feet, shield.
Nice chocolate-brown patina. Very fine.
RPC 76; BCD Corinth 951 (this coin).
Ex Lanz sale 105 (2001) 951.
From the BCD and Prof. Saul S. Weinberg collections.
From its destruction by Mummius in 146 BC, Corinth remained a heap of ruins for the space of one hundred years. In 44 BC Caesar sent a colony there (Colonia Laüs Iulia Corinthus), and the city became once more a flourishing place, as, from the natural advantages of its position, it could hardly have failed to become. Henceforth it struck bronze coins with Latin legends, [like here C. L. I. COR]. (Head, Digital Historia Numorum).