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Message:: [QUOTE="IanG, post: 5137613, member: 109252"]Nice coin, Scipio. I also love coins with mythological stories on them. In my case they are mostly Greek as that is my main collecting area. Here are a couple of mine which record well known myths. [ATTACH=full]1205388[/ATTACH] This coin from Halos in Thessaly tells the tale of Phrixus and the ram. Phrixus and his sister Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino, who wanted to get rid of them. Their natural mother, Nephele, sent a winged ram with golden wool to rescue them. During the escape flight Helle fell off the ram into the strait between Europe and Asia and drowned - the strait was named after her and became the Hellespont. Phrixus survived and sacrificed the ram to Poseidon who had sired it (a bit ungrateful, but there you go). The fleece from the ram became the Golden Fleece of Jason and the Argonauts fame. Halos claimed to be the starting point for the  flight and this is why the flying ram is on its coins. [ATTACH=full]1205392[/ATTACH] This coin from Apameia in Phrygia shows the Phrygian satyr Marsyas. There are variations on this myth but the most common is that he found the aulos (double-pipe) that the goddess Athena had thrown away. After becoming skilled with it he challenged the god Apollo to a contest with his lyre. Apollo won and Marsyas paid for his hubris by being pinned to a tree and flayed alive by Apollo, who may have intended to turn his skin into a wine flask.[/QUOTE]