★ The statue of 'Venus Pudica' ★

Lydia. Philadelphia. Pseudo-autonomous issue AD 161-162. ΛΑΔΙΚΟΣ ΣΕΒΗΡΟΣ ΑΡΧΩΝ (Ladicus Severus, Archon). Time of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
Bronze Æ

24 mm., 9,81 g.

ΙЄΡΑ ϹVΝΚ-ΛΗΤOϹ, draped bust of the Senate youthful, right / [ЄΠ]Ι ΛΑΔΙ ϹЄΒΗΡΟV ΑΡΧΟ ΦΙΛΑΔЄΛΦЄΩΝ, shrine with two spiral columns enclosing statue of nude Aphrodite standing facing, head left, covering her breasts with left hand and pudenda with right hand.

very fine

SNG Copenhagen 354; Imhoof-Blumer, Lydische Stadtmünzen, p. 124, 37 and pl. V, 14 var. (APX, not APXO).