Ancients: Post your Greek God Bronze Coins

http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans1.html
The above and the 8 pages it begins will tell you way, way more than you ever wanted to know about the indent.

 

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oh okay so it was used to help cut the rim.

 

I should pay more attention as I posted a silver coin where the thread obviously called for bronzes. Sorry about that. A lot of issues around here these past few days and my only excuse is that I jump on the net, post and depart very quickly. Ah well, it could be age just as well. Anyway, here is a bronze:

THRACE, PANTIKAPAION AE18
OBVERSE: Head of Pan left
REVERSE: P-A-N, head & neck of bull three-quarters left. S
truck at Pantikapaion 400-300BC
4.0g, 18mm
SNG BMC Black Sea 890

Pan the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs

 

And one more:

TRALLES, LYDIA CITY COINAGE AE18
OBVERSE: Laureate head of Zeus Larasios right
REVERSE: DIOS TRAL-LIANWN, thunderbolt, all in wreath
Struck at Tralles 200-1 BC
6.51g, 17.86 mm
Mionnet 661

 

I really like this one

 

here's my fave...zues on reverse and hercules (demigod count?) on obverse

 

Ummm, how 'bout good ol' Janus? (yup, I've always thought that Janus is a pretty cool God)

 

Never heard of him but thats cool!

 

=> yah, I think he's pretty cool (I kinda like the Gods/Godesses that aren't quite as well known)

 

Looks I'm a little deficient in the Greek god category, but here's a Dionysos.



KINGDOM OF BITHYNIA
Prusias II Cynegus (183 - 149 BC)
AE22, 4.5g
RecGen 26; SNG Cop 635; Sear 7266.
O: Head of Dionysos right wreathed with ivy.
R: BASILEWS PROUSIOU, centaur Chiron wearing a cloak, and playing a lyre, advancing right, monogram beneath leg.

 

Hermes .... yup, that God is awesome!!

Thrace Sestus
Hermes (with an Über-cool lid)
Lyre (also, very cool)

 

Hera (Juno) wearing turreted crown

Owl standing facing, wings spread

Pontos Amisos (AR Siglos)

 

Heracles... only one of them is on a coin, but the other is at least bronzed and still rather godly.



BITHYNIA, Heraclea Pontica
Circa 250 - 200 BC(?)
Æ (3.35g, 18mm)
Stancomb, Autonomous 7a, dies A2/– (unlisted rev. die); SNG BM Black Sea 1631; HGC 7, 489.
O: Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin.
R: HRAKLEWTAN, Lion right; monogram above, facing boukranion between forelegs, club below.
Ex Ronald J. Hansen Collection

 

I like this one

 

Oooops, that last example of mine wasn't bronze (Pontos Amisos, AR Siglos) ... yah, the ol' AR was a dead giveaway ... I'll try to remember to stick to 'bronze babies'

Oh, and yes, that is a very cool coin, Z-bro (nice multi-coloured Herc)

 

ooops, yeah i didn't follow directions either...sorry for the AR.

here's a nice zeus (or abe lincoln?) and dioscuri cap bronze square...