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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3210039, member: 82322"]Good job finding the coin in a CNG group lot. It can be surprising what goes through those lots!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Mithradates the Great coin with two Dioscuri hats that I believe represent his two comets:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]833242[/ATTACH] </p><p>Paphlagonia, Sinope. circa 120-100 BC, Æ15, 4.58g.</p><p>Obv: Winged and draped bust (of Mithradates or Perseus?) right.</p><p>Rev: [Σ]INΩΠHΣ. Cornucopia flanked by piloi surmounted by stars (or comets?).</p><p>Ref: Lindgren and Kovacs 91, SNG Black Sea 1520-, SNG Stancomb 791.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two interesting books you might enjoy if you like mystery religion and astronomy. Wilk's <i>Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon</i> has several chapters on the myth of Perseus and astronomy. The other book is Ulansey, <i>The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World</i>. Mithradates seems to have a fondness for coins depicting the stuff in those books. Both books are somewhat speculative.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3210039, member: 82322"]Good job finding the coin in a CNG group lot. It can be surprising what goes through those lots! Here is a Mithradates the Great coin with two Dioscuri hats that I believe represent his two comets: [ATTACH=full]833242[/ATTACH] Paphlagonia, Sinope. circa 120-100 BC, Æ15, 4.58g. Obv: Winged and draped bust (of Mithradates or Perseus?) right. Rev: [Σ]INΩΠHΣ. Cornucopia flanked by piloi surmounted by stars (or comets?). Ref: Lindgren and Kovacs 91, SNG Black Sea 1520-, SNG Stancomb 791. Two interesting books you might enjoy if you like mystery religion and astronomy. Wilk's [I]Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon[/I] has several chapters on the myth of Perseus and astronomy. The other book is Ulansey, [I]The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World[/I]. Mithradates seems to have a fondness for coins depicting the stuff in those books. Both books are somewhat speculative.[/QUOTE]
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