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ID:     591722
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Provincial
Region:     TROAS
City:     Ilium
Issuer:     Gordian III
Date Ruled:     AD 238-244
Metal:     Bronze
Denomination:     AE 37
Date Struck:     AD 238-244
Diameter:     37 mm
Weight:     23.23 g
Obverse Legend:     AV K [M] AN[T] GOPΔIAN[OC CEB]
Obverse Description:     Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Reverse Legend:     [E]KTΩ−Ρ, ΙΛΙΣΩΝ
Reverse Description:     Hektor charging left in chariot, holding shield and spear in right hand and raising left
Primary Reference:     Bellinger T293
Reference2:     SNG VA 1543
Reference3:     Cornell 103 (this coin)
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=16425
Grade:     Near Fine, brown patina, porous, two edge splits
Notes:     Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1722 ($600) From the David Simpson Collection In Homer's Iliad warriors are portrayed as riding to battle in chariots driven by other soldiers or by specialist drivers. The warriors then fought on foot, and chariots were held nearby, ready for retreat if necessary. There was little in the way of formal tactics for fighting from chariots, their main purpose being to deliver a warrior swiftly to a desired location on the field of battle. They were used in any attempts to charge or break enemy formations. Hektor, literally ‘holder’ or ‘resister’, the son of the Trojan king Priam and Hekabe, and husband of Andromache and father of Astyanax, was the bravest of the Trojan heroes and a favorite of Apollo. Hektor is here depicted charging in his chariot. With Apollo's help he killed Patroklos and so obliged Achilles to join the other Greeks in fighting the Trojans. After killing Hektor with the help of Athena, Achilles stripped him of his armour, and, tying him to his chariot by the purple baldric that Ajax had given him, dragged him ignominiously around the walls of Troy.