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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 2Auction date: 3 December 2017
Lot number: 445

Lot description:


PHRYGIA. Synnada. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Hemiassarion (Bronze, 18 mm, 4.37 g, 7 h), 2nd to early 3rd century AD. AKAMAC Helmeted head of the hero Akamas to right. Rev. CYNNAΔEΩN Isis standing front, head to left, holding sistrum in her right hand and situla in her left. RPC IV online 9995. Very rare. Attractive earthen deposits. The obverse somewhat rough, otherwise, very fine.


Akamas was the son of the Athenian hero Theseus and one of the forty Greek soldiers hiding in the Trojan Horse. Synnada hailed him as one of its city founders, the other being Thynnaros (see above, lot 444).

Starting Price: 50 CHF