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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1884301, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH=full]320175[/ATTACH] </p><p>No sooner than I posted what I considered an acceptable Saturn (whether you consider him a god or not) I got a nicer example.&nbsp; I don&#039;t always upgrade coins just to get a better coin but this is my best Saturn and I considered him special because of how few appearances he made on coins.&nbsp; I am unclear on how the mindset works here.&nbsp; I would think that a real believer in Jupiter might be concerned that he might be offended by a coin honoring the guy (even though he was his father) he defeated to become top deity in the Roman pantheon.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most ancient deities allowed or even expected the belief in other gods but I found it interesting that this would extend to showing the old system god on coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; This version of Saturn is unusual in that it is not just a head/portrait but that it shows prominently the sickle. Gaia, his wife, shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect either she was tired to bearing so many children or, perhaps he had been spending too much on his hobby.&nbsp; Cronos (Saturn in Greek) complied.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also find it interesting that this father cutter was honored by Gallienus who is not known to have made any effort to free his own father from his Persian captivity.&nbsp; It is probably not appropriate to suggest that there was any connection between the Saturn and the Gallienus examples of honoring your father. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was from eBay.&nbsp; Thank you for not bidding.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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