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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spaniard, post: 4620898, member: 90248&quot;]Thanks to all who posted their examples of Hermes/Mercury/Griffon coins previously ...Some beautiful coins and again I learnt a great deal reading up on them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>And the next</b>....We&#039;re geting close to the 1/2 dozen here! </p><p>Again this guy along with Zeus, must be up there as one of the most portrayed portraits on ancient coinage? Picked this one as I really liked the depiction of Athena Itonia on the reverse....</p><p><br /></p><p><b>APOLLO</b></p><p>He was born on the Greek island of Delos..Son of Zeus and Leto-(Daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe).</p><p>God of the oracles, Prophecy, healing, archery, music and arts, sunlight, knowledge, herds and flocks, and protection of the young...</p><p>Symbols associated with him are the Lyre, Laurel wreath, Python, Raven and bow and arrow. </p><p>His sacred animals were the wolf, swan and dolphin...</p><p>He is also one of the few Greek gods whose name was kept by the Romans..</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is from the Thessalian League which was an alliance of city-states and tribes in the Thessalian plains of Greece the capital being Larissa and was run by a few aristocratic Thessalian families (Aleuadae and Skopadae).. This type coin commenced following the great victory of the Roman general Flamininus over Philip V of Macedon, in 197 B.C., the freedom of the Greeks was proclaimed at Corinth and a number of new autonomous coinages were initiated. Those in the name of the Thessali were struck probably at Larissa.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>As always please feel free to post your Apollo coins!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin....</p><p>Thessalian League. Around 197-150 BC. AE Trichalcon (7.64 gm, 19mm). Hippolo(chos), magistrates.</p><p>Obverse: laureate head of Apollo right.</p><p>Reverse: ΘEΣΣA ΛΩN (THESSALON) in two lines, Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear held in her right hand, shield on her left arm; ΙΠΠ-ΟΛΟ (IPOLLO magistrates name) over spear and A-PI across central field.</p><p>BCD Thessaly II, 900.3; Rogers 21.SNG Copenhagen 315.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144126[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here&#039;s a breakdown of the reverse legend...But I&#039;m unsure what the A-PI across the central field signifies?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144127[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here&#039;s the five together hope you like&#039;em.........Paul</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144125[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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