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Auction 12 11 January 2015
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Julia Maesa. AE 27, 12.71g (11h). Tyre, Phoenicia. Obv: IVLIA MAE - SA AV[G] Draped bust right, wearing stephane. Rx: TVRIORVM Dido (?) standing left on deck of galley sailing right, extending right hand and holding cornucopia in left; to left, helmsman bending left over rudder (?); to right, sailor extending right hand and holding curved staff in left; stern decorated with a shield and aphlaston, [two murex shells] in exergue.. CNG E320, 12 Feb. 2014, lot 323 (same dies). Rouvier 2408. Choice VF
An interesting mythological reverse type, whose interpretation, however, is uncertain. "A figure in a galley, accompanied by two sailors, and holding a cornucopiae,...has been identified with Dido, but without certainty" (G.F. Hill, BMC Phoenicia, p. cxli)
An interesting mythological reverse type, whose interpretation, however, is uncertain. "A figure in a galley, accompanied by two sailors, and holding a cornucopiae,...has been identified with Dido, but without certainty" (G.F. Hill, BMC Phoenicia, p. cxli)