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Message:: [QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7645328, member: 91461"][ATTACH=full]1314522[/ATTACH] Or do! Pans on his way and he brought his lagobolon (butt whomping stick)! [ATTACH=full]1314529[/ATTACH]Antigonus Gonatus. AR TetradrachmReign: King, 277-239 B.C.Denomination: AR Tetradrachm.Diameter: 31 mm.Weight: 16.78 grams.Date Struck: After 270 B.C.Obverse: Head of Pan left, wearing goat horns and goat skin, lagobolon behind head, in center of Macedonian shield.Reverse: Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield.Reference: SNG Ashmolean 3258.Purchased from Herakles Numismatics [ATTACH=full]1314595[/ATTACH](Gonatas and his pug nose sit with his mother,  Phila and philosopher Menedemus) The man:The Argead house aside (supposedly going all the way back to Herakles, but assuredly through Alexander 1- Philip II- ATG himself), the Antigonid dynasty may have been the most important to the prestige and long lasting success of Macedon. Riding that wave of success right to the very end (depending on what you believe Philip V or his son Perseus were the last rulers and true kings of of Macedon until Rome came and turned Makedon into 4 merises).Antigonus II Gonatas (and no, his name has nothing to do with gonads, though, assuredly he had large ones. Just means, of Gonnoi, in Thessaly) was born just three years after the death of Alexander the Great and was right in the middle of his families line and a MAJOR reason for their long lasting success.Son of Demetrius Poliorketes, " the besieger" and the grandson of Antigonus Monophthalmus " the one-eyed", general of Alexander the Great, he was grandfather to Philip V and great grandpappy to Perseus!He was only 18 when his grandfather was killed by the combined forces of the Cassander, Lysimachos and Seleukus at Ipsus in 301 BC.His father, much like his grandfather, and every other male in the family, would let nothing stop him. In 294 Demetrius succeeded in reclaiming the Macedonian throne. Demetrios was eventually captured by Seleukos and died in captivity after three years. Though, not without his son's trying with all he had to get his father released.Antigonus II then became king of Macedon in 283/282 - though, he counted his reign not starting until after his victory over the Gauls at Lysimacheia in 277.He would lead a long tumultuous life of near constant warfare to live to the incredibly type old age of 81! It is believed that Pan showing his pug nose on the coin commemorates the victory at Lysimacheia (on the Gallipoli peninsula), as Pan was believed to have appeared in the middle of the Gauls army during the battle, scaring them and leading to Antigonus's victory.That said, I wonder if it might have had to do with the fact that Antigonus II was also described in several sources as short and with a pug nose.[ATTACH=full]1314599[/ATTACH](Gonatas-"Hey! I resemble that remark!")  No description of whether his phallus was massive as well has made its way to us from antiquity<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />It has been argued that the standing Athena on the reverse is Athena Alkidemos ("defender of the people"), the city-goddess of Pella in Macedonia. Which would be an interesting choice as both he and his father both fought and the latter would capture Athens! Others have stated her presence on the coin's reverse may have to do with his tussle with Pyrrhus of Epirus. That or he was just a leg and butt guy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />He would also feature Pan on his bronze coinage:[ATTACH=full]1314591[/ATTACH]Antigonos II. 277/6-239 B.C. Æ (19.4 MM AND 4.91 Sear 6786 OBV: Helmeted head of Athena right                              REV: Pan standing right, erecting trophy Antigonus II (Antigonus Gonatas) 320-239 BC, was king of Macedon & son of Demetrius I. He took the title king on his father's death (283) but made good his claim only by defeating the Gauls in Thrace and by taking Macedon in 276.[/FLOAT_RIGHT] Other coins of his:[ATTACH=full]1314583[/ATTACH]Philip III Arrhidaeus Uncertain mint in Western Asia Minor. (323-317 BCE)/ Or Antigonus Gonatas (288-277 BCE)Bronze Æ Half-bronze unit, (PB, 16) No. v19-0059  16mm, 12 hours. 4.11g. No. 110 in the reference books: Cop.- - MP.2803 pl. 110Obverse, Three-quarter-front head (Herakles?) to the right placed in the center of a Macedonian shield.Reverse, Macedonian helmet; in the field on the right, a caduceus; monogram in the left field.Caption setback: B-A Ex: Savoca"In Martin Price's book, this type of bronze is dated between 323 and 310 BC, struck in West Asia Minor. If this is the case, this bronze could have been struck by Philip III, Antigone the Borgne or Demetrius Poliorketes. According to David Sear, this coin was minted in Macedonia during the intersection of Poliorketes and Antigonus Gonatas (GC. 6781 ss).The Kingdom of Macedonia experienced a very difficult period after the fall of Demetrius Poliorketes who was driven out of Macedonia by Lysimachus and Pyrrhus. The two victors shared the remains of the kingdom of Epigone. After Lysimachus death at the Battle of Couroupédion in 281 BC, Macedonia finally fell to Antigonus Gonatas, the son of Demetrius Poliorketes who had won a brilliant victory over the Galatians (Gaulois) in 277 BC in Lysimachus." [ATTACH=full]1314584[/ATTACH]Antigonos II Gonatas277/6-239 BC. Æ 18mm (3.85 g). Macedonian shield with monogram of Antigonos in central boss / Macedonian helmet; three monograms around. SNG Copenhagen 1222. Very fine. Ex: Savoca [ATTACH=full]1314609[/ATTACH]Antigonos II Gonatas/Antigonus III DosonÆ (14mm, 1.85 g,1/4 unit). Uncertain Macedonian mint. Macedonian shield with monogram of Antigonos in central boss / Macedonian helmet sans bushel flanked by grain ears ; kerykeion to left, green patina. Very RARE quarter unitEx: Savoca Blue, 89 The Pan:[ATTACH=full]1314523[/ATTACH] Pan is the god of the wilderness, outdoors,  mountains, shepards, is the root of the word panic,  the only God to die and the reason the nymphs turned into nymphos<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> [ATTACH=full]1314606[/ATTACH]CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS,Pantikapaion.Circa 310-304/3 BC. Æ (11mm, 1.40g, 12h). Beardless head of satyr right / Bow in bowcase. Anokhin 1025; MacDonald 72; HGC 4, 135. Good VF, Please post you coins of the Antigonid dynasty, Pan, Diadochi or whatever whomps your enemies![/QUOTE]

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