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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1823443, member: 56859&quot;]This one had me puzzled because I didn&#039;t know that coins this size could be called drachms... I was searching for a sestertius <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another overcleaned and corroded but interesting coin from the TIF&#039;s Folly mixed lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]299745[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>33 mm, 23.3 gm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the attribution, lifted from a similar coin in CNG&#039;s archives.&nbsp; The date of mine can&#039;t be confirmed due to the condition.&nbsp; <a href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=167724" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=167724" rel="nofollow">http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=167724</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. <i>Antoninus Pius. </i></b>AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 29.85 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Isis seated right, suckling the child Horus (Harpocrates); L ΔЄKATOV (date) around. Köln 1548; Dattari (Savio) 2649; K&amp;G 35.357. Near VF, rough brown surfaces.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From Collection CR.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Following Alexander’s conquest of Egypt, the cult of Isis spread across the Mediterranean, with its popularity reaching its zenith in the Roman period, when the “goddess of a thousand names” became one of the Mediterranean’s principle deities. It is generally assumed that the iconography of Isis nursing Harpocrates influenced Christian representations of the Madonna and Child, particularly the <i>Virgo lactans</i> type popular in Medieval Europe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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