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Jochen1 replied to the thread Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar.

Sorry! I had taken over the attribution of the coin from the seller. Now I have to correct it. With AVT K P CEPTI it is of course Geta!...

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Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar

Dear Friends of ancient mythology! Finally I have been able to add another coin to my collection on the 12 deeds of Heracles. The...

Forum: Ancient Coins

Jochen1 liked 7Calbrey's post in the thread Another Tyche/Orontes Provincial from Antioch.

The first silver Tet is similar to the OP coin but with lesser condition, the second shows Nabataean king Arates III on obverse with...

Jochen1 replied to the thread Another Tyche/Orontes Provincial from Antioch.

@DonnaM It is admirable how you notice the smallest details on the coins and consider them worthy of pursuing their meaning. For me,...

Jochen1 replied to the thread Androklos and the Ephesian Boar.

It is the story of the famous Kroisos and his son Atys who was accidentally killed by Adrastos during a boar hunt. This boar hunt took...

Jochen1 replied to the thread Androklos and the Ephesian Boar.

@zumbly Thank you for this contribution. Macrinus would be very surprising. Because this motif appears on my coin of Gallienus, it would...

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@zumbly Thank you very much! I have a coin from Parion with the same motif: Mysia, Parion, Gallienus, 253-268 AE 28, 11.60g, 27.76mm,...

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Androklos and the Ephesian Boar

Dear Friends of Ancient Mythology! In itself this is an unremarkable coin, an AE17 of Septimius Severus from Ephesos in Ionia. Coin...

Forum: Ancient Coins

Jochen1 liked Bing's post in the thread New Hadrian Alexandrian coin with "traditional" Egyptian theme.

My mother, in her infinite wisdom, taught me to never discuss politics and religion. In a forum like this, it is too easy to get...

Jochen1 attached a file to the thread New Hadrian Alexandrian coin with "traditional" Egyptian theme.

@DonnaML Some years before I got this lttle nome coin with a crocodile on rev. until I recognized that it was Sobek - the crocodile god!...

Jochen1 liked DonnaML's post in the thread New Hadrian Alexandrian coin with "traditional" Egyptian theme.

In my recent thread about my new Hadrian tetradrachm with a reverse depicting a mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris (see...