[ancients] A couple of colts from Corinth

Heh. Thankfully in our Information Overload Age it's easy to get up to speed on just about any topic, eh. And with that, let's welcome our next speaker on sexual imagery on classical coinage... chrsmat71. He's brought pictures!

 

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After posting a new colt in another thread, I was looking at this one again and discovered that link to the Corinth stater resource page http://www.corinthstaters.com/ that I had posted in the OP no longer exists. It seems that it's now been moved to Wildwinds, so I thought I'd post the new link here in case anyone digs this thread up in a search. This is the new link:
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/corinthstaters/i.html

 

It took a couple of years but now I have one too. Part of the attraction is just that I love saying "apotropaic pudenda virilia"


CORINTHIA, Corinth
c. 400-375 BCE
AR stater. 20 mm, 8.25 gm
Obv: Pegasus flying left; qoppa below
Rev: helmeted head of Athena right; EYO (retrograde) above; pudenda virilia behind
Ref: Ravel 599; Calciati 155; Pegasi I p. 198, 155

 

Took awhile, but finally, I have an apotropaic pudenda virilia buddy! Yeah, that just doesn't sound right... but who cares !

Oh, and since you're showing yours, I recently took new pics of mine...

 

This is an old thread. How did your effort to work this into daily conversation work out? Would 'Practicioner of the Apotropaic Arts' go over well in your peer group?

 

I did-- couple of times in one day, soon after that post. I used the word at work and my audience is accustomed to ignoring my mutterings, especially when I use big words In this case they were correct to ignore me since it was a completely unnecessary sentence (I don't remember exactly how I worked it in)