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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3271524, member: 57495&quot;]<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_7856-jpg.623672/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>TRAJAN DECIUS</b></p><p>AE28. 19.77g, 27.8mm. SAMARIA, Caesarea Maritima, circa AD 249-251. Kadman 154; Rosenberger 129. O: IMP C C MES Q TRA DECI[VS AVG], laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: COL PR F AVG F C [CA]ES METR P, Altar of Apollo, with horns; behind, <b>palm</b> <b>tree</b> with dates on left, <b>olive</b> <b>tree</b> on right. </p><p><i>Ex NAC 59 (4 April 2011), 1420</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Notes courtesy of CNG : <i>Kadman (p. 262) notes: &quot;...it must be remembered that according to the myths of the Greeks, Apollo was born under a date-palm and an olive tree. His mother, Leto, who was known in Egypt and Palestine as Lat and in Italy as Latona, was regarded as the fertility goddess of the date-palm and the olive. We may, therefore, assume with virtual certainty, that this altar was consecrated to Apollo.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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