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               TREBONIANUS GALUS,Neapolis.AE23.Mt.GERIZIM.VF
                              Item #148612628
               Coins & Stamps:Coins:Non-US:Ancient, Medieval
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                                Description

                       TREBONIANUS GALUS, Neapolis.

                               MOUNT GERIZIM

                                 AE23. VF

                     OBV: Laureate draped bust right;

              REV: Eagle supports Mount Gerizim with Shrines.

                            VERY RARE! Ros-123

                              MOUNT GERIZIM.

     The most remarkable design for a city religious coin was produced
         for Neapolis in Samaria, near modern day Nablus. This coin
       combines a plan or map of the site, showing the two summits of
      Mount Gerizim, rock outcrops, stairs, adn rivers, along with the
       facades of buildings,temples, altars, and shrines built by the
      biblical Samaritans and later reconstructed and dedicated to the
          god Zeus by the emperor Antoninus Pius. The eastern coin
        engravers, probably Greeks, were daring artists and were not
     averse to taking a chance when designing a coin. Often these city
       views are rendered with innovative, three dimensional graphics
       techniques, in order to show the details of the structures and
      landscape which normally would not be seen in traditional views.
         This artistic improvisation is usually very creative, and
      suggests that great artistic freedom was given to the engravers
       by the authorities in control of the mints. (Marvin Tameanko)
        TREBONIANUS GALLUS--Caius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus. Emperor
     251-254. Appointed to serve as Hostilian's associate. He effected
        a peace with the Goths which was felt to be degrading by the
         Romans. He was subsequently murdered by his own soldiers.

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