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Coin of Side with bust of Aemilian
Roman Provincial
Imperial Period
A.D. 252–253
Mint: Pamphylia, Side
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Diameter: 32.5 mm. Weight: 14.57 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
Accession Number1986.77
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
DescriptionObverse: Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust of Aemilian to right.
Inscriptions in Greek.
Reverse: Archaistic statue of Apollo Sidetes walking left, patera in outstretched right hand, scepter (?) in left.
Inscription in Greek.
Inscriptions in Greek.
Reverse: Archaistic statue of Apollo Sidetes walking left, patera in outstretched right hand, scepter (?) in left.
Inscription in Greek.
ProvenanceDecember 9, 1982, sale (auction 1), Edward J. Waddell, Ltd., Barbizon Plaza Hotel, New York, lot 439. By 1985, Edward J. Waddell, Ltd., Bethesda, MD [see note]; 1986, sold by Waddell, Ltd. to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 26, 1986)
NOTE: Waddell List 21 (December 1985), no. 172.
NOTE: Waddell List 21 (December 1985), no. 172.