TROAS, Alexandria Troas. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ (22mm, 5.06 g, 12h). VF.

Electronic Auction 571 – Session 1
Lot: 440.
Closing Date: Sep 25 2024 10:00 ET

Roman Provincial, Bronze

Estimate: $ 200

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TROAS, Alexandria Troas. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ (22mm, 5.06 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / At right; Apollo, wearing himation to waist, seated left, holding arrows in his right hand; to left, the priest Krinis, seated right, at feet, forepart of a hound; between, facing bearded herdsman Orodes, head right, holding pedum in right hand; at right, mouse impaled by arrow; at center, tripod altar. Bellinger A402; RPC IX 413.7 (this coin); A.R. Bellinger, “The Late Bronze of Alexandria Troas,”ANSMN 8 (1958), Type 20, pl. VII, 20. Green patina, light obverse roughness. VF. Rare mythological type. The authors of RPC cite only eleven specimens, all struck from the same pair of dies.

Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 819.

The reverse represents the reconciliation between Apollo Smintheus and his priest Krinis, both enjoying the hospitality of the herdsman Orodes. According to the local legend (Iliad I. 39), Apollo, angered at his priest, sent a plague of mice to devastate the crops, but later repenting, he appeared to Orodes the herdsman who hospitably received him, and Apollo promised to kill the mice with his arrows. The animal represented on this coin, which is pierced by an arrow, could represent one of the mice.

Closing Date and Time: 25 September 2024 at 12:26:20 ET.

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