Lot 1105. aVF/gVF. Est $1800.


Caracalla AE28 of Pautalia in Thrace. 

Obv: AVT K M AVRH ANTWNINOC, laureate head right 
Rev: OVLPIAC PAUTALIAC, river god Strumon reclining left, right hand on 
 galley, resting on urn from which waters flow. Four small figures are
 busy around him:

 Above, one climbs up to pick grapes labeled BOTPY from vine growing up behind 
 and over Strumon.

 Below, one harvests wheat labeled CTAXY from a field.

 To the left, one shoulders a big bag of silver labeled APGYPOS.

 To the right and below, one is collecting gold, labeled XPYSOS, from the 
 flowing stream.


This reverse, with an obverse of Julia Domna, is the title page illustration
of Moushmov's "Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula."


By permission of ancientcoinart.com, June, 2002.