Æ MEDALLION REPLICA OF AN EARLY RENAISSANCE AFTERCAST "PADUAN" FROM GIOVANNI CAVINO CIRCA 1600 COPPER COIN AGED WITH OXIDIZED GREEN PATINA
Æ Roman Empire Medallion (38.1mm, 36.70g.) Antinoos, Early Renaissance Aftercast "Paduan" from artist Giovanni Cavino circa 1600. Copying 117-130 AD issue, Smyrna, Ionia.
Antinous was a handsome Bithynian youth whom Hadrian probably noticed on his visit to the region in AD 123/4. According to Hadrian's biographer Anthony Birley, Antinous likely found a "discreet place" in Hadrian's entourage and accompanied the peripatetic emperor on his various journeys. His unmistakable face is seen in the background on a series of marble relief roundels depicting Hadrian and his companions on a lion hunt, which were later reused on the Arch of Constantine. Their relationship came to a mysterious end during Hadrian's visit to Egypt in 130. During a barge trip up the Nile, Antinous drowned, probably on October 24. In his memoirs, Hadrian insisted the youth's death was an accident, but other historians implied either that Hadrian had killed him in some sacrificial rite, or that Antinous had committed ritual suicide to preserve Hadrian's health. Whatever the true story, Hadrian's grief was such that he deified the youth and founded the city of Antinoopolis near the spot of his drowning. The cult of Antinous spread rapidly throughout the Greek east, making him the last of the truly popular Pagan gods. His sculpted image also became ubiquitous as the very personification of male beauty. Antinous is extensively honored on the Roman provincial coinage of the East, particularly in Bithynia and Egypt, but is totally absent from the official Roman coinage, since the Romans regarded their emperor's display of "Greek love" as an embarrassment.
This issue was hand-struck (hammered) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (ancient Roman province Philippopolis). It goes without saying you always get the exact item in the picture.
Design:
Obverse side
Bare head of Antinous left
Legend:
ANTINOOC HPΩC
Reverse side
Female panther standing left, one raised paw against a filleted thyrsos
Legend:
ΑΔΡΙΑΝЄC ΤΑΡCΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛЄΩC NЄΩΚΟΡΟΥ
A perfect choice for Numismatists, Historians, Military Veterans, Collectors.
Æ MEDALLION REPLICA OF AN EARLY RENAISSANCE AFTERCAST "PADUAN" FROM GIOVANNI CAVINO CIRCA 1600 COPPER COIN AGED WITH OXIDIZED GREEN PATINA
Æ Roman Empire Medallion (38.1mm, 36.70g.) Antinoos, Early Renaissance Aftercast "Paduan" from artist Giovanni Cavino circa 1600. Copying 117-130 AD issue, Smyrna, Ionia.
Antinous was a handsome Bithynian youth whom Hadrian probably noticed on his visit to the region in AD 123/4. According to Hadrian's biographer Anthony Birley, Antinous likely found a "discreet place" in Hadrian's entourage and accompanied the peripatetic emperor on his various journeys. His unmistakable face is seen in the background on a series of marble relief roundels depicting Hadrian and his companions on a lion hunt, which were later reused on the Arch of Constantine. Their relationship came to a mysterious end during Hadrian's visit to Egypt in 130. During a barge trip up the Nile, Antinous drowned, probably on October 24. In his memoirs, Hadrian insisted the youth's death was an accident, but other historians implied either that Hadrian had killed him in some sacrificial rite, or that Antinous had committed ritual suicide to preserve Hadrian's health. Whatever the true story, Hadrian's grief was such that he deified the youth and founded the city of Antinoopolis near the spot of his drowning. The cult of Antinous spread rapidly throughout the Greek east, making him the last of the truly popular Pagan gods. His sculpted image also became ubiquitous as the very personification of male beauty. Antinous is extensively honored on the Roman provincial coinage of the East, particularly in Bithynia and Egypt, but is totally absent from the official Roman coinage, since the Romans regarded their emperor's display of "Greek love" as an embarrassment.
This issue was hand-struck (hammered) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (ancient Roman province Philippopolis). It goes without saying you always get the exact item in the picture.
Design:
Obverse side
Bare head of Antinous left
Legend:
ANTINOOC HPΩC
Reverse side
Female panther standing left, one raised paw against a filleted thyrsos
Legend:
ΑΔΡΙΑΝЄC ΤΑΡCΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛЄΩC NЄΩΚΟΡΟΥ
A perfect choice for Numismatists, Historians, Military Veterans, Collectors.
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