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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spaniard, post: 4562879, member: 90248&quot;]Here&#039;s the 2nd of the dozen.......</p><p><b>ZEUS.</b></p><p>King of the Gods.</p><p>The child of Cronus and Rhea the Titans and was born on the island of Crete..</p><p>God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, and justice.</p><p>Symbols associated with Zeus are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak.</p><p>His Roman counterpart being &#039;Jupiter&#039;.</p><p>I&#039;m not gonna go into what this god could or couldn&#039;t do but lets just say &#039;virtually anything&#039;! From physical transformation to sticking a mountain on his shoulder and moving it somewhere else..He was pretty cool!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wow! This guy has so many representations, he must be up there with the most depicted portrait on ancient coins!? After looking through many different styles of this &#039;Iconic face&#039; with his huge curly beard often filling the obverse and an array of reverses depicting thunderbolts, eagles and the said fellow seated, surrounded with a multitude of legends, I decided on a much calmer simplistic portrayal. This coin really called to me and after subsequent research realised it&#039;s a nicely detailed coin for the type and wasn&#039;t expensive so I bought it!</p><p><br /></p><p>This was one of the first coins minted in Eumeneia, a town positioned on the river Claucus in the ancient West region of ancient Asia Minor, part of modern day Turkey. The town was named after Eumenis II by his brother the king of Pergamon Attalus II (Now there&#039;s a story!)...</p><p>OK here&#039;s the coin..</p><p>Phrygia, Eumeneia Circa 200-133 BC. AE 15mm (3.98 gm).</p><p>Obv...Laureate head of Zeus right.</p><p>Rev...EYME-NEΩN (EUMENEON) legend in two lines within oak-wreath.</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 377-378</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129516[/ATTACH]</p><p>OK... The first two together...When this set is finished I would like to display it in a vertical tray stand, as I really liked how Donna presents her coins see this thread.</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/running-out-of-display-space.359223/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/running-out-of-display-space.359223/">www.cointalk.com/threads/running-out-of-display-space.359223/</a></p><p>Criterias I look for are the coin diameter, I&#039;m trying to keep them within 5mm, but also that the coins compliment each other...</p><p>Please feel free to post your bronze coins of ZEUS...Love to see&#039;em.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129518[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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