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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Volusian. AD 251-253. Æ (27.5mm, 16.27 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front / Cadmus standing left, holding patera in right hand, transverse spear and drapery in left; at feet left, recumbent heifer; to right, murex shell; to upper left, city gate of Thebes; ΘH/BЄ in left field. RPC IX 2018; Rouvier 2482. Earthen green patina, light roughness. Near VF.
While traveling through Greece in search of his abducted sister Europa, the Phoenician prince Cadmus consulted the Delphic oracle, where he was instructed to follow a sacred cow and found a city on the spot where it should finally take rest. Cadmus followed the instructions, and the spot where the cow stopped became the great city of Thebes in Boeotia.
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