GORDIAN III BRONZE AE35 – RARE ISSUE OF TARSUS WITH THE HOMERIC MOSTER SCYLLA – FINE ROMAN IMPERIAL PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 18704)

$750.00

18704. ROMAN EMPIRE. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF TARSUS, CILICIA, STRUCK UNDER GORDIAN III, AD 238-244.
Bronze AE35, 16.93 g, 35 mm.
Obv. ΑΥΤ Κ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ, Π Π, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian right. Rev. ΤΑΡϹΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛƐOϹ, Scylla, standing facing, her head turned left, with two fish tails and four hound protomes on her lower body, Α Μ Κ Γ Β in fields.
RPC VII.2, 3100 (online record cites 6 specimens); SNG Levante, 1125.
Ex Clive Foss Collection.
Fine, green patina, a rare provincial type depicting the monster Scylla from one of the famous stories in Homer’s Odyssey.