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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 274 | Auction date: 22 February 2012 |
| Lot number: 276 | |
| Lot description: Roman Provincial LYDIA, Tralles. Tranquillina. Augusta, AD 241-244. Æ (29mm, 10.93 g, 12h). Philippus Centaurus, magistrate. Diademed and draped bust right / Io standing right in the door of her father’s cow-shed, clasping hands with Zeus who stands facing her. BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Lindgren II A842 (this coin). VF, brown patina. Very Rare. Ex Henry Clay Lindgren Collection. The reverse type of this coin may depict the meeting of Zeus with the nymph Io in her father’s boustasis, or cow-shed. Dr. Barclay Head argued in Numismatic Chronicle 1903 that this may be a scene from the nuptials of Io, as represented at Tralles during festival times in commemoration of the remote Argive origin of the city. Alternatively, the scene could represent a later incident in which Io is restored to sanity (and her human form) by Zeus in Egypt. (NC (1903), p. 338). Estimate: $600 |  |
