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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1932806, member: 19463&quot;]I am wrong so often it may be what I am remembered for but, in my mind, river gods tend to be shown reclining while Olympians sit or stand.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying that this is a 100% diagnostic but when I see a guy reclining, I think of a river (Nile, Danube or Tiber).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Neptune statue shown on the coin is way too large in proportion to the lighthouse (pharos) as shown beneath it.&nbsp; I did see a reference to a lighthouse of Claudius built on a beached ship that had been used to bring an obelisk to Rome by Caligula.&nbsp; Reading that, I have to wonder if the central ship on the coin is that ship or, since it lines up with the statue,&nbsp; if the intent here was to show the lighthouse detail.&nbsp; I discount this idea because of the placement of the sail but still wonder why drawings of the lighthouse I have seen show nothing that looks like a ship.&nbsp; Perhaps the ship was dismantled and the wood used.&nbsp; We have to remember that the thing was remodeled by Pius and I fail to find dates on the drawings.&nbsp; &nbsp; Is that statue actually the lighthouse or just a statue?&nbsp; Is there a dated image of the original Claudian form of the lighthouse or are these coins the best we have?&nbsp;&nbsp; Are there other forms of this image showing where the die cutter might have copied the design or is it supposed to be entirely original?&nbsp;&nbsp; These questions may be completely ridiculous and I have not done the research.&nbsp; I do believe that interpretations by one worker a century ago can become gospel too easily as one expert copies another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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