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Online Auction 124 | Silver 23 Jan 2022
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Arkadia. Thelpousa. Geta, as Caesar AD 198-209.
Assarion Æ
22 mm, 3,84 g
[ΛO]Y CЄ-Π ΓЄTAC KI, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / [ΘЄΛΠOYCIΩN], Hermes standing left, holding purse with right hand and caduceus with left.
Earthen brown patina. Nearly very fine.
BCD Peloponnesos 1769.5 (this coin).
Ex Dr. F. Jarman Collection.
Thelpusa took its name from the nymph Thelpusa, daughter of the river Ladon, an affluent of the Alpheius in western Arcadia. Demeter was worshipped at Thelpusa under the name of Erinys, and on the banks of the Ladon arose the myth of the pursuit of Demeter by Poseidon, when, to escape him, she assumed the form of a mare. But the god was not to be so deceived, and transformed himself into a horse. The offspring of this union was the wondrous horse Areion.
Assarion Æ
22 mm, 3,84 g
[ΛO]Y CЄ-Π ΓЄTAC KI, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / [ΘЄΛΠOYCIΩN], Hermes standing left, holding purse with right hand and caduceus with left.
Earthen brown patina. Nearly very fine.
BCD Peloponnesos 1769.5 (this coin).
Ex Dr. F. Jarman Collection.
Thelpusa took its name from the nymph Thelpusa, daughter of the river Ladon, an affluent of the Alpheius in western Arcadia. Demeter was worshipped at Thelpusa under the name of Erinys, and on the banks of the Ladon arose the myth of the pursuit of Demeter by Poseidon, when, to escape him, she assumed the form of a mare. But the god was not to be so deceived, and transformed himself into a horse. The offspring of this union was the wondrous horse Areion.