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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8468214, member: 26430"]Leu was right, that really is a lovely example! I pay attention to these ones at auction, since they seem like the best value for a silver RIC (sorta) of Claudius. Very impressive coin, congratulations! And nice writeup. I do really love coins that depict structures that still exist (or at least their foundations or ruins) today.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have of any of these types, but I'll share some tangentially relevant coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my best Diana-Artemis of Ephesus... or, rather, the Artemis-of-Ephesus-of-Massalia (Marseilles) according to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8843737" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8843737" rel="nofollow">Roma Numismatics</a> (discussing a different specimen; I have not independently investigated their argument):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>"<font size="4">It is to [Massalia] that the archaic statue of Artemis on the reverse refers: the worship of Artemis of Ephesus had been a major part of the city's religious fabric since its establishment as a colony by Greek settlers, and she appears here in her capacity as chief goddess of the city</font>"</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>And, on the obverse, the "Dreadlocked Gallia," as I call her (I imagine this to be Vercingetorix's wife, but that's entirely fan-fiction). A Hostilius Saserna AR Denarius (48 BCE, Cr. 448/3):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1500064[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a favorite temple coin of mine, struck in the name of Philip II in Thessalonica (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69113" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69113" rel="nofollow">RPC Temp 69113</a> = this coin illustrated). It's a coin celebrating the second Pythian Games of Thesaalonica and the city's Neocorate status. There are a few possibilities for which temple this was. Personally, I think it's the Temple of Kabeiros in the city's "Sacred Quarter." When ancient sources (e.g., Biblical) describe Thessalonica's cult of Dionysus, I think they're actually describing the cult of Kabeiros:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1500065[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8468214, member: 26430"]Leu was right, that really is a lovely example! I pay attention to these ones at auction, since they seem like the best value for a silver RIC (sorta) of Claudius. Very impressive coin, congratulations! And nice writeup. I do really love coins that depict structures that still exist (or at least their foundations or ruins) today. I don't have of any of these types, but I'll share some tangentially relevant coins. Here's my best Diana-Artemis of Ephesus... or, rather, the Artemis-of-Ephesus-of-Massalia (Marseilles) according to [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8843737']Roma Numismatics[/URL] (discussing a different specimen; I have not independently investigated their argument): [INDENT]"[SIZE=4]It is to [Massalia] that the archaic statue of Artemis on the reverse refers: the worship of Artemis of Ephesus had been a major part of the city's religious fabric since its establishment as a colony by Greek settlers, and she appears here in her capacity as chief goddess of the city[/SIZE]"[/INDENT] And, on the obverse, the "Dreadlocked Gallia," as I call her (I imagine this to be Vercingetorix's wife, but that's entirely fan-fiction). A Hostilius Saserna AR Denarius (48 BCE, Cr. 448/3): [ATTACH=full]1500064[/ATTACH] Below is a favorite temple coin of mine, struck in the name of Philip II in Thessalonica ([URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69113']RPC Temp 69113[/URL] = this coin illustrated). It's a coin celebrating the second Pythian Games of Thesaalonica and the city's Neocorate status. There are a few possibilities for which temple this was. Personally, I think it's the Temple of Kabeiros in the city's "Sacred Quarter." When ancient sources (e.g., Biblical) describe Thessalonica's cult of Dionysus, I think they're actually describing the cult of Kabeiros: [ATTACH=full]1500065[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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