Nikopolis in Moesia, Antoninus Pius, Kleinbronzen des Zeno.
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Nikopolis ad Istrum in Moesia Inferior, Antoninus Pius, signiert von Zeno, 138-161 nC.,
Æ 20 / Assarion(?) (20-22 mm / 6,90 g),
Obv.: AVT AI AΔPIA - ANTΩNEINOC , blosser Kopf des Antoninus Pius r. .
Rev.: HΓE ZHNΩNOC - N-EIKOΠOΛ , Apollo Sauroktonos (der Eidechsen-Töter) steht mit gekreuzten beinen n.r. an einen Stamm gelehnt, an dem eine Eidechse emporklettert.
Pick, AMNG I 349, 1225 var. (mit Lorbeerkranz, 1 st. gelistet) ; SNG Cop. - ; Varbanov 1679 var (Legende) ; Moushmov 872 .
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.69-70: "Praxiteles also, though more successful and consequently better known as a worker in marble, created admirable works in bronze: ...He...made a young Apollo with an arrow watching a lizard as it creeps up with intent to slay it close at hand; this is known as the sauroktonos or Lizard-slayer."
It is not known what connection existed between Nicopolis and Apollo Sauroktonos, or even the reason for the lizard hunt, but the type appears on the city's coins several times in the Antonine and Severan periods. This specimen is the earliest and most elegant representation of this famous sculpture.
Patricia Lawrence: "Yes, indeed, that is the best specimen of the signed Zeno Sauroktonos that I have seen, Pick 1225. It remains (assuming that the signed one is at least as early as the unsigned ones that are very similar--those in Varbanov) the earliest Sauroktonos Apollo on a coin, since it is very improper to call the deliberate spin-off at Apollonia ad Rhyndacum a "Sauroktonos". It never has a lizard or a tree."
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Nikopolis ad Istrum in Moesia Inferior, Antoninus Pius, signiert von Zeno, 138-161 nC.,
Æ 20 / Assarion(?) (20-22 mm / 6,90 g),
Obv.: AVT AI AΔPIA - ANTΩNEINOC , blosser Kopf des Antoninus Pius r. .
Rev.: HΓE ZHNΩNOC - N-EIKOΠOΛ , Apollo Sauroktonos (der Eidechsen-Töter) steht mit gekreuzten beinen n.r. an einen Stamm gelehnt, an dem eine Eidechse emporklettert.
Pick, AMNG I 349, 1225 var. (mit Lorbeerkranz, 1 st. gelistet) ; SNG Cop. - ; Varbanov 1679 var (Legende) ; Moushmov 872 .
Thread: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/ ... #msg324008
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.69-70: "Praxiteles also, though more successful and consequently better known as a worker in marble, created admirable works in bronze: ...He...made a young Apollo with an arrow watching a lizard as it creeps up with intent to slay it close at hand; this is known as the sauroktonos or Lizard-slayer."
It is not known what connection existed between Nicopolis and Apollo Sauroktonos, or even the reason for the lizard hunt, but the type appears on the city's coins several times in the Antonine and Severan periods. This specimen is the earliest and most elegant representation of this famous sculpture.
Patricia Lawrence: "Yes, indeed, that is the best specimen of the signed Zeno Sauroktonos that I have seen, Pick 1225. It remains (assuming that the signed one is at least as early as the unsigned ones that are very similar--those in Varbanov) the earliest Sauroktonos Apollo on a coin, since it is very improper to call the deliberate spin-off at Apollonia ad Rhyndacum a "Sauroktonos". It never has a lizard or a tree."
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