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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6440490, member: 110350&quot;]He doesn&#039;t look sad to me; he&#039;s just hungry. All those Alexandria Troas horses look kind of like that; I think mine does as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous colonial civic issue, AE 23, 251 - 260 AD (Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I), Troas, Alexandria Troas Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, vexillum inscribed CO AV over right shoulder, CO ALEX TR / Rev. Horse (of Erichthonius?)* grazing to right, COL AVG, TROAD in exergue. RPC IX 505 (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505</a>); Bellinger A486 [Alfred A. Bellinger, <i>Troy, The Coins</i> (Princeton 1961)]; BMC 17 Troas, 46 <i>var. </i>[diff. legends]; see also id. 45, 47-50 <i>var. </i>[Warwick Wroth,&nbsp; <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 17, Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos </i>(London 1894)]; SNG Copenhagen 108-113 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 20, Troas</i> (1945)]. 23 mm., 5.80 g.&nbsp; <i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney; ex: Pars Coins. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1255241[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* See BMC 17 Troas at xviii, citing Cavedoni (<i>Spicil</i>., p. 151) for the suggestion that the grazing horse, first depicted on the coins of Alexandria Troas ca. 300 BCE, is one of the horses of Erichthonius, father of Tros, after whom Troas was named.</p><p><br /></p><p>***</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I do have to admit that that&#039;s the saddest-looking Tyche I&#039;ve ever seen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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