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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2149363, member: 57495&quot;]6 buck Greek cheapie, a favorite even if most of the details have been lost to time...</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000">HIMERA</span></font></b></p><p><b><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000">[ATTACH=full]412250[/ATTACH]</span></font></b></p><p><b>SICILY, Himera</b></p><p>Circa 420 - 407 BC</p><p>AE Tetras</p><p>2.45g, 16.7mm</p><p>CNS I 32</p><p>O: Pan as a youth, holding thyrsos over shoulder and blowing on a conch shell, seated on goat walking right; three pellets (mark of value) below.&nbsp; </p><p>R: Nike flying left, holding aphlaston and hem of skirt. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000">HIEROCAESAREA</span></font></b></p><p><b><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000">[ATTACH=full]412251[/ATTACH]</span></font></b></p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE20</p><p>5.27g, 19.8mm</p><p>LYDIA, Hierocaesarea, circa 138 - 161 AD</p><p>RPC online 1264; BMC 26</p><p>O: AY KAI T AILIOC ANTWNEINOC, laureate head right.&nbsp; </p><p>R: IEROKAICAREWN GLAYKOC, river-god Glaukos reclining left, holding reed and resting left arm on an overturned urn from which waters flow.</p><p>Notes: <i>Located near the border of Lydia and Mysia, Hierakome was renamed Hierocaesarea in the time of Emperor Tiberius.&nbsp; It was notable for its sanctuary to the Persian goddess Anahita (whose cult later became that of Artemis Persica, the Persian Artemis). </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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