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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Multatuli, post: 2891632, member: 89266&quot;]Last week, this coin was delivered at my home. It&#039;s been a long time since I&#039;ve been looking for a piece like this. It was not very easy to find. In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. He became a popular figure in Roman erotic art and Latin literature, and is the subject of the often humorously obscene collection of verse called the Priapeia. Priapus and his giant phallus represent three different kinds of prosperity: growth, represented by his enormous phallus; affluence and fertility, symbolized by the basket of fruit at his phallus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]695186[/ATTACH] </p><p>Elagabalus. Moesia, Nicopolis ad Istrum Mint 218-222 AD. Obverse: AYT K M AVR ANTWNINOS Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Reverse: NIKOPOLITWN PROC ICTROPriapus standing left, holding patera and basket of fruits set on phallus. References: Varbanov 3863 Scarce. Size: 17mm, 2.63g. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ithyphallic coins are relatively frequent in antiquity, with classic examples being minted in Siris, Thasos, and of course from the Roman period of the Severian dynasty minted in Nicopolis ad Istrum.</p><p>Such coins demonstrate how much there were no problems related to bodily exposure, considered natural (including corporeal bodily perfection as a way of approaching the gods), versus the excessive moral control we observe today.</p><p>Post your ityphallic or “priapic” coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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