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Lot 76. Tralles AE17, Hermes and Io reverse, ex Lindgren
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eAuction #10, Lot 76. Estimate: CHF 80.00
Tralles, Lydia. Pseudo-autonomous AE17 (5.78 g), imperial time.
Obv. ZEYC ΛYΔIOC, head of Zeus right.
Rev. [EI]OYC..., Io as veiled bride conducted by Hermes as paranymph.
Lindgren I, A839A (this coin).
Very rare. Good fine.
A rare scene from the myth of Io. Barcley V. Head, in Historia Numorum p. 661,
notes that on coins of Tralles occur “the Nuptials of Io, ЄΙΟΥC ΓΑΜΟΙ, showing
Io as a veiled bride conducted by Hermes as νυμφαγωγος, or the meeting of Zeus
with Io in her father’s cow-shed (βουστασις) (Aesch., Prom. Vinct. 652).”
From the Henry C. Lindgren collection.
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