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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2805951, member: 75937&quot;]In the spirit of <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-provincial-coin-cities-how-many-can-we-cover.300235/">TIF&#039;s provincial cities thread</a>, where participants post coins of cities in alphabetical order every few days, I thought we could have fun with a similar thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you find polytheism fascinating? I sure do! There are hundreds of deities and personifications which were honored and worshipped by ancient peoples. From minor river gods to the major Olympian deities, there&#039;s an ancient coin depicting them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see how many deities and personifications we can cobble together here. Like TIF&#039;s thread, let&#039;s do it by alphabet, allowing a couple of days per letter. As TIF says, &quot;Inevitably there will be latecomers, omissions, or later purchases but that&#039;s okay-- just add them when you can if that letter&#039;s time has already passed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it&#039;s okay if you want to post a deity that someone has already posted. Go ahead and show it off! Feel free to include depictions of the deity in statuary, on vase paintings, mosaics or whatever else you think is appropriate or interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start with <b>Annona</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Annona isn&#039;t some Hollywood actress on a &quot;gluten-free&quot; diet; Annona WAS gluten, the divine personification of the Roman grain supply, which flowed into Rome day after day from the provinces, especially from Egypt, on ships loaded with hundreds of baskets full of wheat and other grains. It&#039;s fitting Annona is depicted as standing between a modius (a bushel basket) and the prow of a ship, all the while holding ears of grain and a cornucopiae.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]655463[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius; 23.16 g, 29 mm</p><p>Rome, AD 142</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVG S C, <b>Annona</b> standing right, between modius and prow, holding corn ears and out-turned cornucopiae</p><p>Refs: RIC 597; BMCRE 1228; Cohen 37; RCV 4147; UCR 502[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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