★ Apollo's statue of Psophis ★

Arkadia. Psophis. Septimius Severus AD 193-211. Struck circa AD 198-209
Assarion Æ

21 mm, 4,42 g

Λ C[Є]ΠΤΙ [...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus to right / ΨΩΦЄ-ΙΔΙΩΝ, Apollo, nude, standing left, resting his left elbow on low column surmounted by an uncertain object and with his right hand held loosely downwards (or holding branch?).

very fine

Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 1689.

From the Tareq Hani collection