Ancient coins with interesting motifs?

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  1. Nvb

    Nvb Well-Known Member

    Interesting motifs is the name of the game with ancients. Part of the fun is discovering them all and then finding that perfect example to fit your collection.

    How about a depiction of the Hindu god Shiva (Siva) with 4 arms and a Tamgha below. Won this morning from CNG :)

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    Or Asclepius riding a winged serpent?
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    Nvb, Sep 9, 2020
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  3. PeteB

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    The Abduction of Persephone. LYDIA, Nysa. After 133 BC. Æ (18mm, 5.78 gm, 10h). Obv: Head of Persephone right, poppy behind neck. Square countermark on nose. Rev: Hades in galloping quadriga right, carrying off struggling Persephone. Flower basket falling left from hands of Persephone. A valley near Nysa was the site where, according to the myth, the abduction happened. SNG Copenhagen 306; BMC Lydia 16.
     
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    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Wow! Really like that!
     
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  5. Parthicus

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    @Finn235 has already pointed out how Sasanian coins usually show a reverse of a Zoroastrian fire-altar with two attendants, but he didn't mention that sometimes the god Ahura-Mazda makes an appearance in the flames, as on this obol of Shahpur II (309-379 AD):
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