The wealthy woman Pedia Secunda
Lot 1238
PHRYGIA. Eucarpeia. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Hemiassarion (Bronze, 19 mm, 3.52 g, 6 h), Pedia Secunda, epimelètheisa. Time of Hadrian, 117-138. ΒΟΥΛΗ ΕΥΚΑΡΠΕΩΝ Veiled and draped bust of the Boulé to right. Rev. ΕΠΙ ΠΕΔΙΑϹ ϹΕΚΟΥΝΔΗϹ Hermes standing front, head to left, holding purse in his right hand and kerykeion in his left. RPC III 2592. Rare and unusually attractive. Very fine.

This is one of the few cases of a woman financing a coin emission: Pedia Secunda must have been an unusually wealthy woman and apparently played an important role in her town. RPC speculates that she may have been the wife of P. Cl. Max. Marcellianus, who is known from other coins of Eucarpeia (see RPC III, p. 863)
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320 CHF
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Closing time: 27-Feb-21, 20:18:30 CET
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