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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7648300, member: 110350&quot;][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], how do you know that the cartoon is supposed to represent Artemis rather than Diana? It seems to me that she could be either.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, I have only one coin specifically portraying Artemis, a tetrassarion of Diadumenian from Nicopolis ad Istrum showing Artemis on the reverse -- with her hound, rather than a stag:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315005[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two coins depicting Neptune, the first a denarius of L. Lucretius Trio with Neptune &amp; trident on the obverse and Cupid riding a dolphin on the reverse (one of my favorite Roman Republican coins):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315006[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And the second an as struck by Caligula with Agrippa on the obverse and Neptune with trident and dolphin on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315007[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have a couple of Roman Republican coins showing Diana that have a stag motif:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C.. Allius Bala, AR Denarius, 92 BCE, Rome mint. Obv.: Diademed female head (Diana?)* right, wearing necklace; BALA behind, control mark &quot;R&quot; below chin / Rev.: Diana in biga of stags right, holding sceptre and reins in left hand and flaming torch in right, with quiver over shoulder; control-mark (grasshopper) below stags; C•ALLI in exergue; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 336/1b; RSC I Aelia [Allia] 4 (ill.), Sear RCV I 221 (ill.), Sydenham 595, BMCRR 1742-1771 [no control-letter &quot;R&quot;]. 17 mm., 3.88 g.**</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315009[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* Varying identifications of obverse head: Crawford (&quot;female head r., wearing diadem&quot;); RSC I (&quot;female head (Diana?)&quot;); BMCRR (same); Sear RCV I (&quot;female deity&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>** Moneyer otherwise unknown. See BMCRR p. 238 n. 2: &quot;This type may refer to the annual festival in honor of Diana held on the Aventine, where her temple stood, and at which torch races occurred. . . . C. Allius Bala was apparently the first moneyer to introduce a symbol as a mint-mark in conjunction with a letter.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Ti. Claudius Ti.f. Ap.n. Nero [Tiberius Claudius Nero, son of Tiberius and grandson of Appius], AR Serrate Denarius, 78 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Diana right with hair in topknot, bow and quiver over shoulder, <b>figure of stag at end of bow (horns to left)</b>, S • C [<i>Senatus Consulto</i>] before / Rev. Winged Victory driving galloping biga right, with horses’ heads straining forward, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond and reins in left hand, control number CXXXIIII beneath horses; in exergue, TI•CLAVD•TI•F [VD ligate] / [A]P•N [AP ligate] in two lines. Crawford 383/1, RSC Claudia 5, Sear RCV I 310 (ill.), Sydenham 770, BMCRR 3096-3113 [Control number CXXXIIII not included], Harlan, RRM I Ch. 8, pp. 36-39 [Harlan, Michael, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i>, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012)]. 18 mm., 4.01 g., 6 h. [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315011[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there are my several Roman Republican Dianas with no reference to stags (unless that&#039;s also supposed to be a stag&#039;s head at the end of Diana&#039;s bow on the first two -- it&#039;s not mentioned in any of the catalog descriptions, unlike the descriptions of the Ti. Claudius Nero):</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus (Aulus Postumius Albinus, son of Aulus [mint magistrate ca. 96 BCE], and grandson of Spurius [Consul 110 BCE]), AR Serrate Denarius, 81 BCE. Obv. Draped bust of Diana right, with bow and quiver over shoulder, bucranium above [<i>off flan</i>] / Rev. Roman priest standing facing on rocky ground (on Aventine Hill), head left, with right arm extended holding aspergillum, sprinkling heifer [<i>Harlan, RRM I</i>*], bull [<i>Crawford &amp; Sear</i>], or ox [<i>RSC</i>] which he is about to sacrifice, a lighted altar between them, A POST - AF - SN • ALBIN [<i>AL in monogram</i>] around. RSC I Postumia 7, Crawford 372/1, Sydenham 745, Sear RCV I 296 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 1 at pp. 1-7, BMCRR 2836. 18.54 mm., 3.85 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex. Spink &amp; Sons Ltd. </i>(<i>before 2000 because of address on Spink coin tag; probably before 1974 given citation to Sydenham but not Crawford.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315016[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Postumius, AR Denarius, Rome 74 BCE. Obv. Bust of Diana R. w/ bow and quiver/ Rev. Hound running R., hunting spear below, “C POSTUMI TA” [<i>TA in monogram</i>] in exergue. RSC I Postumia 9, Crawford 394/1a, Sear RCV I 330, Harlan, RRM I Ch. 18 at pp. 109-112, BMCRR Rome 3238. 18 mm., 3.83 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315014[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Hosidius C.f. Geta, AR Denarius, 68 BCE. Obv. Draped bust of Diana R., wearing crown and stephane[?], with bow and quiver over shoulder, GETA before, III VIR behind/ Rev. Wild boar of Calydon r., pierced in shoulder by spear and attacked by hound beneath, C. HOSIDI C F in exergue. RSC I Hosidia 1 (ill.), Crawford 407/2, Sear RCV I 346 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 32 at pp. 189-194, BMCRR Rome 3388. 18 mm., 3.91 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315015[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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