CoinsRoman Provincial2nd century CE

Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt, under Antoninus Pius, with The Judgement of Paris

142-143 CE

Description

Obverse: Bare head of Antoninus Pius, bearded to right. Reverse: The Judgement of Paris: on the right, the three goddesses stand on a platform representing a rock on Mount Ida in the Troad: Aphrodite is looking left at Eros flying towards her (barely visible on this specimen) and opening her drapery, Hera is veiled and holds a scepter in her right hand, and Athena is helmeted and leans on her shield; below, left, Hermes, lifting his arm towards the goddesses, explaining the rules to Paris standing in front of him; to right the grazing herd of Paris.

Classification

Coins

Technique

Struck

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Roman Provincial

Period

Roman Imperial period, Middle

Century

2nd century CE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

26.34 g

Provenance

[Münzen und Medaillen AG XIII (17 June 1954), lot 948].Walter Niggeler Collection, Baden, Switzerland, by 1964l, sold; through [Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 21 October 1966, Part 2, lot 729]. Gilbert Steinberg Collection, New York, (by 1994), through [Numismatica Ars Classica/Spink Taisei Numismatics, Zürich, 16 November, 1994, lot 841]. Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection, Lugano Switzerland (by 2018), through: [Purchased through Herbert Kreindler, from; Triton XXI, 9 January 2018 lot 161].