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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24659094, member: 26430&quot;]That is a great coin, [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER] ! Apologies for the digression, but the Alexandria Griffins are a special series. The wheel indicates it&#039;s not just any Griffin, but <i>Nemesis</i>-as-Griffin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kerry Wetterstrom may have written first about that re: Alexandrian coins. See his brief essay, &quot;Nemesis as Portrayed on Roman Coinage,&quot; in <a href="https://archive.org/details/15n1classicalnum1990review/page/43/mode/1up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/15n1classicalnum1990review/page/43/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">CNR XV.1 (Winter 1990, p. 43)</a>. (Elsewhere in Classical art the connection was well known: e.g., <a href="https://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/catalogue/8/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/catalogue/8/" rel="nofollow">extended commentary on Getty&#039;s mosaic from Roman Syria</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, a great thread started by Al Kowsky in 2020 discussing that topic and w/ many Griffins. (I remember because I ended up buying the OP coin when he parted with it a year or so later!) <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/egyptian-drachm-with-a-provenance.354986/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/egyptian-drachm-with-a-provenance.354986/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/egyptian-drachm-with-a-provenance.354986/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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