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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7833820, member: 99456&quot;]An excellent post [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], an interesting sestertius, references, and educational discussion of evidence one can use to differentiate that figure &quot;&quot;just standing there&quot;.&nbsp; Faustina as Demeter/Ceres with Faustina II as Kore/Proserpina at a time when Proserpina is bringing a new child into the world is compelling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been wrestling with my own Demeter/Kore (&quot;Artemis Phosphoros&quot;?) coin (500 years earlier) from the end of the reign of Alexander the Great, as his armies pushed back and he turned from his ambitions to push east beyond the Hyphasis River, and dealt decisively with threats and misbehavior in his satraps/governors.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346571[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3"><b>Kings of Macedon, Alexander III &#039;the Great&#039;</b>, 336-323 BCE. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.98 g, 12h), Lampsakos mint, struck under Kalas or Demarchos, circa 325/4-324/3 BCE</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Obv:</b> Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Rev:</b> Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Artemis Phosphoros standing facing, holding two torches; monogram (Δ over O) below throne</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Ref:</b> Price <a href="http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1356" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1356" rel="nofollow">1356</a>; <a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan49322" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan49322" rel="nofollow">ADM II Series V</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The figure in question is just on flan, bottom left with one torch showing clearly.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346575[/ATTACH]</p><p>I lack a good explanation for why &quot;Artemis Phosphorus&quot; v. &quot;Demeter&quot; v. &quot;Kore&quot;.&nbsp; Other notes are dangling: Artemis as protector of children, Phosphoros as a name for Venus, the morning star, ...</p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>&quot;Father [Zeus], I ask thee not for quiver or for mighty bow: for me the Cyclopes will straightway fashion arrows and fashion for me a well-bent bow. But give me to be Bringer of Light and give me to gird me in a tunic with embroidered border reaching to the knee, that I may slay wild beasts.&quot;</i></font></p><p><font size="4">- Callimachus (c. 310-240 BCE), <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html" rel="nofollow">Hymn III: To Artemis</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>More on this coin in my Notes pages: <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/alexander-the-great-in-asia-minor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/alexander-the-great-in-asia-minor" rel="nofollow">Alexander the Great in Asia Minor</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is that an AE coin?&nbsp; about 10-12grams?&nbsp; perhaps: Æ Dupondius or As, Vesta standing to left, holding palladium and long torch; S-C across fields, <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1178_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1178_as" rel="nofollow">RIC III 1178</a> (Pius)<b> Edit: </b>attribution from Roman Collector matches Roma (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5160306" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5160306" rel="nofollow">1179</a>).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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