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Geta, as Caesar, Æ 19mm of Magnetes, Thessaly. AD 198-209. ΠΟΠΛΙ CЄΠΤ ΓЄ[...], laureate head to right / [AK]PA[IOC] MAΓΝΗΤѠΝ, Zeus Akraios, nude, standing facing, head to left, holding sceptre and thunderbolt. Cf. Wace Alan, The Topography of Pelion and Magnesia in JHS 26, p. 167, 5 (ΠΟY ΛO) = Imhoof-Blumer, Griechische Münzen, p.120, 312 (attributed to Magnesia ad Maeandrum); cf. Mionnet III, p. 152, 664 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Apollo Litaios). 4.72g, 19mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare.
From the J. Greiff Collection, assembled prior to 1998.
Zeus Akraios was worshipped on the summit of Mt. Pelion (Dicaearchus Messenius F.H.G 262 'Ζευς Ακταιος'). In 1911 a sanctuary dedicated to Zeus Akraios and a cave of Chiron were excavated by Apostolos Arvanitopoulos.
Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare.
From the J. Greiff Collection, assembled prior to 1998.
Zeus Akraios was worshipped on the summit of Mt. Pelion (Dicaearchus Messenius F.H.G 262 'Ζευς Ακταιος'). In 1911 a sanctuary dedicated to Zeus Akraios and a cave of Chiron were excavated by Apostolos Arvanitopoulos.