90,00 €
Ionia, Smyrna, Gallienus (253 – 268 AD). M. Aurelius Sextus, magistrate. Struck circa 260-268 AD. AVT K ΠΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC; laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CMYPNAIΩN Γ NЄΩK ЄΠM AVP CЄΞTOY; Cybele turreted, enthroned, holding in right hand patera, left arm resting on tympanum, lion at feet.
| Diameter [mm]: | AE28 |
| Weight [g]: | 7,08 |
| Grade: | aVF/aVF |
| Attribution: | SNG Cop 1413; Klose 24 var. (O-/R24 [unlisted obv. die]); BMC 463 (same rev. die) |
| Commentary: | rough surfaces, faint but good details |
In the Book of Revelation Smyrna was one of the Seven Churches of Asia, admired for its tribulation and poverty and forecast to suffer persecution.
