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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 7319270, member: 74834&quot;]Recently I bought some varied Roman Provincial coins with an eye on their reverses. </p><p>This is the nicest of them, an AE26 of Alexandria Troas (one of my favorite mints) by Severus Alexander (222-235). But this type exists from other 3rd century emperors, too: Caracalla and Valerian come to mind. Maybe it was issued on special festival occasions. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] has a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/herakles-arrested-for-drunk-and-disorderly-conduct.310837/#post-2991078" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/herakles-arrested-for-drunk-and-disorderly-conduct.310837/#post-2991078">much better coin</a> of this type. On the reverse, from left to right, you see an excitedly waving man looking to a broad-chested man with his legs wide, behind him another man whose head and legs only show, and to the right a goat-legged god with horns on his head. Probably the scene was copied from a famous sculpture, now lost. </p><p><br /></p><p>This has been interpreted as a drunk Hercules propped up by satyrs by Bellinger (who wrote in the 1920s), but more recently also as a <i>Silenus dance</i>, the left figure being the satyr Marsyas - who on his own also figures on Alexandria Troas coinage. In the middle is the old satyr <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenus" rel="nofollow">Silenus</a>, and at the right the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)" rel="nofollow">god Pan</a> with something hanging from his shoulder. This may be seen in various <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=35450" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=35450" rel="nofollow">CNG auction records</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1279237[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The lettering on the reverse is a bit unusual: COL AV left, GTROA in the exergue, but nothing to the right apparently. You can see this clearly on the RPC example.</p><p><br /></p><p>26 mm, 7.81 gr. <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3987" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3987" rel="nofollow">RPC VI online 3987</a> (8 specimens); Bellinger A335.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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