Savoca Coins
Online Auction 124 | Silver 23 Jan 2022
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Messenia. Pylus. Caracalla AD 198-217.
Assarion Æ
21 mm, 3,86 g
[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ΠVΛIΩN, ram (or another animal) seated right on base.
Light green patina. Very fine.
BCD Peloponnesos -; cf. NCP p. 70.
Ex Dr. F. Jarman Collection.
Pylus situated upon the promontory of Coryphasium, which formed the northern termination of the bay of Navarino. Below the ruined fortress at the northern end there was a cavern, called "the ox's belly," which gave name to the small circular port immediately below it. This cave was, according to the Peloponnesian tradition, the one into which the infant Hermes drove the cattle he had stolen from Apollo.
Assarion Æ
21 mm, 3,86 g
[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ΠVΛIΩN, ram (or another animal) seated right on base.
Light green patina. Very fine.
BCD Peloponnesos -; cf. NCP p. 70.
Ex Dr. F. Jarman Collection.
Pylus situated upon the promontory of Coryphasium, which formed the northern termination of the bay of Navarino. Below the ruined fortress at the northern end there was a cavern, called "the ox's belly," which gave name to the small circular port immediately below it. This cave was, according to the Peloponnesian tradition, the one into which the infant Hermes drove the cattle he had stolen from Apollo.