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A female figure, likely to be the Tyche of Alexandria, holds a rudder and a small figure on tetradrachms and AE 33 of Antoninus Pius year 15. She wears a headdress, which is probably turreted (as Dattari, cf. e.g. RPC III, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/11917). Milne described the figure as Isis-Tyche crowned with three plumes. The attributes of the small figure are unclear. It wears a tripartite headdress, perhaps a hem-hem crown. It holds a small uncertain object, rather like a purse in one hand, and a long object (caduceus, sceptre, or club?) in the other. The purse and caduceus look quite convincing on e.g. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/coin/115204: if that is what they are, they may be a reference to commerce (Vogt 1924, p. 127 identified the figure as Hermes; cf. the small figure of Hermes associated with Moneta in Marcus year 3). Milne (p. xxix) thought that the small figure was the equally uncertain statue from the top of the Pharos (McKenzie 2010, pp. 42-3). The Pharos statue is best seen on coins of Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian. There it is not crowned and the attributes appear different so there is little to commend the identification.
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