Weird looking deities - post your cartoonesque gods

Every time I look at this antonianus of Philip I 'the Arab' it makes me happy:

ROMAN IMPERIAL, Philip I ('the Arab'). Denomination: AR Antonianus, minted: Rome, Italy; 244-247 AD
Obv: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG: Bust of Philip the Arab, radiate, draped, cuirassed, right. Rev: ANNONA AVGG: Annona, draped, standing left, holding corn-ears in right hand over prow and cornucopiae in left hand
Weight: 3.75g; Ø:2.1mm. Catalogue: RIC IV 29. Provenance: Ex private collection; acq.: 05-2019

I mean, it's just too funny:


So, special thread: post your weird looking gods, emperors or whatever makes you laugh!

 

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Looks a bit like the head of a goat? With the curly horn, and large nose, and beard on the cheeks.

Here's my weird looking deity. Proof that Octavian had some extraterrestrial help at the battle of Actium.

 

Faustina I, AD 138-141.
Roman AR denarius, 2.72 g, 18 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 140-144.
Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust, right.
Rev: Pietas, veiled and draped, standing left, dropping incense on lighted altar with right hand and holding box in left hand.
Refs: RIC 394b var. (denarius); BMCRE 311-314 var. (bust); RSC 234a; Strack 428; RCV --; CRE 120.

Apparently, Pietas is into cosplay and dressed up like a lioness!

 

In an amazing display of prescience, here is a coin devoted to Jar Jar Binx (on the obverse; that's Sol, doing his John Travolta impression, on the reverse):

 

TANIT - Cartoon

I had to check this coin in a couple places before I felt confident with this coin. I also have a SNG COP Africa plate book that I bought from @Valentinian (Thank you, I really like it!) It illustrated this coin almost exactly as mine (I had to check if mine was the Plate Coin - bummer, no.)

So the Die-Cutter / Engraver had a distinct cartoon style for this Coin design. It distinguishes from most of the other Carthage Empire designs.

That noooose.....

Carthage Zeugitania
AR ½ Shekel
17mm 3.8g
2nd Punic War 218-202 BCE
Sicily mint 216-211 BCE
Tanit left
Horse right, sun as double Uraeus
SNG COP 359
Ex: Romae Aeternae

 

Kushan God Mao (Moon)
Kanishka I 127-41AD

 

This strange Artemis always strikes me as cartoony and possibly barbarous


More comic than toon, you can't tell me that Pan doesn't look like the spitting image of spider man's nemesis the Green Goblin:

 

Two Victories reverse...

 

CARTOON SALUS:


RI Leo I 457-474 CE AE 4 10mm Salus Emp stdg hldg Globe and Standard
Ex: @Blake Davis (MORTOWN)

 

LOWER DANUBE CELTS
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: Stylized head of Herakles with wild hair, right
REVERSE: Stylized Zeus seated left holding an eagle, kantharus to left
Struck by the Lower Danube Celts, 2d-1st Century BC
2.9g, 20mm,
CCCBM I 217, Kostial 896
ex JAZ Numismatics

 

I call this Postumus reverse the "Spaghetti Victory," and can't help but see the resemblance between her and a certain squid artist...

 

FESTIVAL OF ISIS
AE. 0.79g, 12mm. Rome mint, mid-4th Century (time of Julian II). Alföldi, Festival pl. VIII, 11; Vagi 3393; Tesorillo 26/26, no. 254 (this coin). O: [ISIS F-A]RIA, draped bust of Isis right, wearing hem-hem crown and necklace. R: [VOTA P-]VBLICA, Hermanubis standing left in military dress, holding sistrum and caduceus.

Quite literally cartoonish...

 

LOL

 

The Cherub in this coin is very different. This is the same symbol that is on the arc of the covenant from the Indiana Jones movie.

JOHN III DUCAS AE Tetarteron SBCV- 2115 DOC 57

OBV Head of Cherub with 4 wings, Pellets flanking on l. side

REV John III seated facing on throne with back, wearing stamma with pendilia, chlamys, holding labarum and gl cr.

Size 19.33mm

Weight 1.974 gm

 

ALIENS TAKING THE TARG OUT FOR A WALK


RR Lucius Caesius 112-111 BCE AR Den Apollo dog Lares Praestites bust Vulcan tongs above LA RE S 175 Craw 298-1

 

Some nice wierdo's have been posted! Of course, the Celts had to say hello:


AE drachm, Danubian Kelts, "Kugelwange" type. 200-100 BC. Obv: Very big-nosed imitation of Phillip II (probably). Rev: not much left.

To illustrate how big this nose actually is:

 

CELTS - The Original Cartoonists!


Celt Imit Philip II 2nd C BCE AR Drachm Zeus Horse pellet-in-annulet above Kugelwange type- Danube Valley - Kostial 508 OTA 204



Celtic Imitation Philip II 2nd C BCE AR Drachm Kugelwange type- Danube Valley - pecunum auction