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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3378861, member: 96635&quot;]First of all, great coin [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I have no idea where this winged boar comes from. I was reading a bit but there are no real answers. It could have been a monetary alliance between Samos and Klazomenai. Also, in the period the coin was minted the Samians adopted a lot of variety in their denominations until atleast 394 BC. Klazomenai adopted the winged boar for unknown reasons as well. Besides the theory of [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER], the writer Claudius Aelianus wrote in his book <i>De Natura Animalium </i>that a winged boar devastated the territory of the Klazomenians. The oracle was consulted and declared this winged boar as an emissary of Apollo who needed to be &quot;satisfied&quot; by sacrifices.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER]&nbsp; It is possible that the lion scalp symbolizes the king as even in the time of Polycrates the coins that were issued had a lion&#039;s scalp. But why 3 centuries later the lion&#039;s scalp was still on the coins of Samos? Especially when there is no king to symbolize. I do think that it could be partly related to a religious deity (Percy Gardner wrote about this as well). However, why the Samians didn&#039;t choose for a lion&#039;s head rather than a lion&#039;s scalp is unclear to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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