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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 7647686, member: 57495&quot;]I reckon this die engraver was rather taken with Artemis as he positioned the branches of the tree behind her to make it look like she had a pair of delicate, angelic wings.&nbsp; Pity about the stick-figure stag. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314915[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>SALONINA</b></p><p>AE29. 9.26g, 29.5mm. IONIA, Ephesus, AD 254-268. Karwiese 1184 (<i>this coin cited and illustrated</i>). O: · CAΛΩN · XPVCOΓONH · CЄBA ·, diademed and draped bust right on crescent. R: EΦECIΩN Γ N-EΩ-KOPON, Artemis, standing facing, head right, raising right hand and holding bow; tree behind her, stag at her side. </p><p><br /></p><p>Two more of her in her action pose...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314917[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>POPPAEA</b></p><p>AE17. 3.3g, 16.7mm. PHRYGIA, Acmoneia, circa AD 62. Lucius Servenius Capito, archon, with his wife Juia Severa. RPC I 3175. O: ΠOΠΠAIA CEBACTH, Draped bust of Poppaea to right, wearing wreath of grain ears; before, forepart of lion to right. R: CEPOYHNIOY KAΠITΩNOC - KAI IOYΛIAC / CEOYHPAC – AKMONEΩN, Artemis advancing right, holding bow in her left hand and drawing arrow from quiver with her right; to left, monogram; to right, monogram above lyre.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314918[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>Billon Tetradrachm. 12.71g, 22.5mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 5 = AD 141/142. Dattari-Savio pl. 108, 8094 (<i>this coin</i>); Emmett 1362.5; RPC Online 14246 (2 spec., <i>this coin cited</i>). O: Laureate head left. R: L-E, Artemis advancing right, drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder, holding bow. </p><p><i>Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1981.513); ex Giovanni Dattari Collection</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>And here she is, immortalized on a First Meris tetradrachm... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314919[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>MACEDONIA, Roman Protectorate, First Meris</b></p><p>AR Tetradrachm. 16.84g, 32.7mm. MACEDONIA, Amphipolis mint, circa 167 - 149 BC.&nbsp; SNG Cop 1313; Prokopov 127.&nbsp; O: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield.&nbsp; R: Club; monogram above, two monograms below, MAKEΔONΩN above, ΠPΩTHΣ below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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