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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3879128, member: 82322&quot;]Here is a Valerian with Α Μ Κ and Γ Β:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024748[/ATTACH] </p><p>Obverse: AY KAI P L OVAL[ERIAN]ON SE P P; Valerian radiate, draped and cuirassed right.</p><p>Reverse: TARSOY MHTROPOL[EW] A M K Γ B; Kronos walking left, crowned, harpa in right hand.</p><p>Ref: SNG Levante <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=80956" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=80956" rel="nofollow">1183</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased this believing the reverse figure was Perseus.&nbsp; I was initially unable to identify it.&nbsp; The identification of the reverse figure as Kronos is by Imhoof-Blumer (his entry in Roscher&#039;s Lexicon and <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/623723" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/623723" rel="nofollow">1898 article</a> in the Journal of Hellenic Studies) who cites Stephen of Byzantium and coins of Mallos and Flavopolis as evidence that Kronos was worshipped in Cilicia. [ <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/623723" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/623723" rel="nofollow">http://www.jstor.org/stable/623723</a> ].</p><p><br /></p><p>In <i>The Golden Bough</i> Sir James Frazer suggests Kronos on coins of nearby Mallos are a Greek replacement for the Phoenician harvest god El.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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