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Figure III-2-aga-057. Rearing bearded Agathodaemon serpent, wearing pschent (sekhemti) crown, holding kerykeion (caduceus) in its coils and facing the goddess Isis-Thermuthis as rearing uraeus hooded cobra, wearing horns and disc crown and holding sistrum in its coils.

Material: Denomination
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Mint: Issuer/Authority: Historical Period,
Date:
Collection:
Bronze 29 mm coin
(reverse)
Alexandria,
Egypt
Antoninus Pius
(r. 138-161 AD)
Roman Imperial,
153-154 AD
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Source-Image(s): Roman Provincial Coinage Online (www.rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk; © The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and the original holders): Reference № 4.15004.temp.8. The full list of numismatic and exonumic images' sources is available on the Coins introductory page.

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