Coin

Item number 2189/262 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Coin of Tarsus? One side (obverse?) has an elder man sitting down on the left side with his legs out to the right side. Holds a staff(?) and a branch with his left hand to the right side. The other side (reverse?) has two men facing each other with a thin, vertical object in between them. The man on the left side has his left arm at rest just in front of him off to the side while his right arm extends upward at a forty-five degree angle as his finger points at the same angle. The man on the right side has his left arm wrapped around his waist while his right arm is bent at the elbow in a ninety degree angle so that his finger points upward. Image is surrounded by a square.