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| Issuer | Argos (Achaea) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A river-god reclines to the left in the typical Hellenistic personification convention, his semi-nude figure supported on a overturned water-urn from which water flows, symbolising a local watercourse associated with the territory of Argos. He holds a long reed in one hand, a standard attribute of river deities in Greek provincial coinage. The figure is rendered in a relaxed, reclining posture with drapery across the lower body. The ethnic legend ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ appears in the field, identifying this as a civic issue of the Argives. The surface shows considerable wear and green patination typical of bronze provincial coinage of the Antonine period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ (Translation: of the Argives) |
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| Mint | Argos |
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