Septimius Severus, AE35 of Apameia, Phrygia. AD 193-211. 16.97 g. Magistrate Agonothes

AYT K L CEPT CEOYHROC PER, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
EPI AGONOQE TO V ARTEMAG APAMEWN, generally described as 
Noah and the ark, but could allude to the flood of Deucalion, showing Deucalion and Pyrrha. Two half-length 
figures of standing left in square chest representing the 
Ark, ("inscribed NWE") and floating on waves, a bird sitting 
on it at upper right. On the left the figures standing left 
on dry land, raising hands, with a bird above them holding 
an olive branch. 

Paris 515 and 515A; Rhousopoulos 4098.

With permission of Roma Numismatics auction XV, lot 584, April 2018.

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