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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2972532, member: 75937&quot;]&quot;What? Roman Collector posting Greek coins? Has the world gone mad?!&quot; you ask? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I have a couple of Greek coins lying around. These two are from different Macedonian cities but they have a couple of things in common--Artemis on the obverse and a bull on the reverse. At some point, I&#039;d like to get a coin depicting Artemis Tauropolis actually riding a bull. It&#039;s one of many on my list.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Artemis Tauropolis coins, bull-coins, etc--whatever you feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>Artemis Tauropolos, in ancient Greece, was an epithet for the goddess Artemis, variously interpreted as &quot;worshiped at Tauris&quot;, &quot;pulled by a yoke of bulls&quot;, or &quot;hunting bull goddess.&quot; A statue of Artemis &quot;Tauropolos&quot; in her temple at Brauron in Attica was supposed to have been brought from the Taurians by Iphigenia. The Tauropolia was the name of the festival of Artemis in Athens.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a Tauropolion, a temple in a temenos sacred to Artemis Tauropolos, in the north Aegean island of Doliche (now Ikaria).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]729501[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">The remains of the Temple of Artemis in Brauron.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>And now on to my coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]729502[/ATTACH]</p><p>Macedonia, Amphipolis, ca. 187-131 BCE</p><p>Æ 21.4 mm 7.57 gm</p><p>Obv: Head of Artemis Tauropolis, right</p><p>Rev: ΑΜΦΙΠΟ-ΛΙΤΩΝ, bull bounding right</p><p>Refs: SNG ANS&nbsp; 113.7.83; Lindgren Europe 933; BMC 35; SNG Cop 72</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]729504[/ATTACH]</p><p>Macedon, Pella, ca. 187-131 BCE</p><p>Æ 17.5 mm, 4.99 g</p><p>Obv: Helmeted head of Artemis Parthenos, right</p><p>Rev: ΠΕΛ-ΛΗΣ, bull grazing, right; monograms below and above.</p><p>Refs: SNG Cop 266 ff.; BMC 97, 17 ff.; Moushmov 6453.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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