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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 6264356, member: 82616&quot;]I really love Alexandrian coins which depict local or ethnic reverse types. My latest addition features a canopic jar ... you can&#039;t get any more Ancient Egyptian than that!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248046[/ATTACH]</p><p><b> Vespasian </b></p><p>Æ Obol, 3.78g</p><p>Alexandria mint, 71-72 AD</p><p>Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΥ; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev: LΔ; Canopus, r.</p><p>RPC 2435 (11 spec.). Emmett 219.4 (R1).</p><p>Acquired from Lodge Antiquities, January 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Alexandrian ethnic type features an Osiris-Canopus jar on the reverse. Osiris here is depicted as a jar with a human head. The lid is the head of Osiris with his hair coiffed in an Egyptian style called the klaft. He is wearing a crown and the protective uraeus, or sacred cobra. His body is a Canopic jar, a vessel which held the internal organs of the deceased for the afterlife. These jars were carried by priests to symbolically transport the Nile&#039;s sacred waters during processions. The jar may possibly symbolise the abundance brought by the waters. This fertility type began showing up on the coinage in the First Century. The regnal year four issue is the most common date for this reverse under Vespasian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your &#039;Egyptian&#039; coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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