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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3269338, member: 103829&quot;]Dear friends of Apollo Sauroktonos!</p><p><br /></p><p>Apollo Sauroktonos is one of my favourite motives on coins. Here I want to share 2 types with depictions different from the usual presentations of this famous statue.</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) Nikopolis ad Istrum, Macrinus, AD 217-218</p><p>AE 27, 13.42g, 26.82mm, 345°</p><p>struck under governor Marcus Claudius Agrippa</p><p>obv. AV K OPPEL CE - VH MAKRI NOC</p><p>laureate head r.</p><p>rev. [VP AG]RIPPA NIKOPOL - ITWN PROC IC</p><p>in l. and middle field TR - W</p><p>Apollo Sauroktonos, nude, with crossed legs, l. leg set behind r. leg, stg. r., l.</p><p>hand resting on tree-stump, in bent r. hand holding branch with which he touches</p><p>the tree</p><p>ref. a) AMNG I/1, 1687, pl. XIV, 35 (5 ex.)</p><p>b) Varbanov (engl.) 3372</p><p>c) Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2018) No. 8.23.7.2 (same dies)</p><p>d) Pat Lawrence obv. M, no.10 (gap between I and N on obv. not mentioned)</p><p>VF, dark green patina</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861980[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pick writes:&quot;the left on a tree-stump from which a lizard(?) is jumping to him.&quot; But on this coin it is rather a branch with small round fruits.</p><p>Pat Lawrence (in &#039;The Pontianus and Agrippa Dies for Macrinus and Diadumenianus at Nicopolis ad Istrum&quot;): Apollo Sauroktonos, so labeled by Pick (and Taf. XIV, 35) and earlier, though Postolakas at Athens: Achilles Postolakas, Catalogue of the Ancient Coins of Regions, Nations, Cities and Kingdoms, National Numismatic Museum, 1872, no.847, is at pains to describe what he sees: &quot;...to one side and the other of Apollo, naked, stg. r., bending his l. knee, having his head laureate and holding with his r. hand a twig (or branch) slanting downwards, placing his raised l. hand on the little tree, stripped of its branches, stand in front of him.&quot; He, too, doubted wether we may read the elements between Apollo&#039;s torso and the tree trunk as a leaping lizard.</p><p><br /></p><p>(2) Philippopolis, Faustina jun., AD 145-176<b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p>AE 26, 7.74g</p><p>obv. FAVCTEINA - CEBACTH</p><p>bust, draped, r.; hair in three horizontal waves and bun behind</p><p>rev. FILI - PPOP - O - LEITWN</p><p>Apollo, nude, stg. r. with crossed legs, leaning with l. hand on oblique column </p><p>with quiver at base, holding arrow in r. hand</p><p>Ref. Mionnet Suppl.2, 1491 (from CoinArchives)</p><p>Rare, VF</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861984[/ATTACH] A beautiful variation!</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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