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  1. shanxi

    shanxi Well-Known Member

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    Rhodes, 88-84 BC
    Asia Minor, Caria
    AR Drachm, magistrate Nikephoros
    ‘Plinthophoric’ coinage (‘plinthophoric’ for the square incuse around the reverse type)
    Obv.: Head of Helios right, radiate crown
    Rev.: Rose with bud to right; NIKHΦOPOΣ above, hand holding grain ear to lower right, P-O
    Ag, 2.11g, 14mm
    Ref.: Jenkins, Rhodian, Group E, 249; HGC 6, 1461

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  3. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Egypt. Maximinus Thrax

    Obverse: AVTO MAΞIMINO CEV CEB, Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right l

    Reverse: Radiate bust of Helios right; LB (date) to right

    (regnal year 2 = 236/237 AD).

    23.5mm, 10.70 grams. Alexandria mint. Köln 2554; Dattari 4572; Milne 3196; Emmett 3280.2.

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  4. Alwin

    Alwin Well-Known Member

    490.jpg HADRIAN, Tetradrachm
    Alexandria, 129-130
    13.17 g - 24 mm
    S 3735 - Dattari 1384 - Emmett 852
    Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right of Hadrian
    AYT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB
    Radiate bust of Helios right L IΔ

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  5. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

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    EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian
    year 8, CE 123/4
    billion tetradrachm, 23 mm, 13.2 gm
    Obv: ...TPAI AΔ... ; laureate bust right, slight drapery; crescent before
    Rev: draped bust of Serapis-Ammon right; L-H across fields
    Ref: Emmett 895.8, R5; Köln 858; Dattari (Savio) 1481; K&G 32.258
    From a Hungarian Collection formed primarily in the 1930’s

    Next: a syncretic deity
     
  6. JayAg47

    JayAg47 Well-Known Member

    How about Athena?
    Although she had Greek origins, she was still worshiped in the Indo-Greek Buddhist Bactrian empire.
    Athena featured on the coin of the Buddhist emperor Menander I.
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    Next- Native Indian coinage.
     
  7. Sulla80

    Sulla80 Well-Known Member

    many posts too late - carry on.
     
  8. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    12-hour rule. Back to sycretistic deities, like this coin of Serapis (a conflation of Osiris and the Apis bull, also linked to Hades and Zeus, among others):

    Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 18 (133/134 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Serapis enthroned left, wearing modius on head, holding scepter in left hand, and extending right hand toward Cerberus seated to left at his feet; L IH [= Year 18] in left field. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 5871 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871; BMC 16 Alexandria 620-621 at p. 74 & PL. XIII [Poole, Reginald Stuart, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria (London, 1892)]; Köln 1095 [Geissen, A., Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen, Köln, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Dattari (Savio) 1480 [Savio, A. ed., Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini (Trieste, 2007)]; Emmett 892.18 [Emmett, Keith, Alexandrian Coins (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1394 [Milne, J., A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay 1971); K&G 32.571 [Kampmann, Ursula & Granschow, Thomas, Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria (2008)]. 25 mm., 12.42 g., 12 h.

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    Next: Another syncretistic deity represented on a coin of Roman Egypt.
     
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  9. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Nice one, @DonnaML :). Looks like Zeus is telling Cerberus what a good boy he is :D

    Here's Hermanubis... Hermes + Anubis, with his good boy, Pluto (er, I mean a jackal) :shame:.

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    EGYPT, Alexandria. Philip II as Caesar
    Regnal year 4 of Philip I, CE 246/7
    billion tetradrachm, 22 mm, 12.8 gm
    Obv: MIOVΦIΛIΠΠOCKCEB; cuirassed bust right, bare head
    Rev: Hermanubis standing facing, head right, winged caduceus in right arm and palm branch in left hand; jackal (looking more like Disney's Pluto or a balloon dog) left at feet; L-Δ
    Ref: Emmett 3592.4(Caesar); Milne 3676; Dattari-Savio pl. 264, 5079

    Next: there are plenty of other syncretic deities to show... let's see another :).
     
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  10. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    LOL. You're right about what the jackal looks like. And what Serapis looks like putting his hand out to Cerberus -- whom I have trouble visualizing on this coin as a three-headed dog, as opposed to an ordinary dog standing on his hind legs with his front paws spread apart.

    Regarding both Hermanubis and Serapis, the Greeks and Romans really didn't like the idea of animal-headed gods, did they?
     
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  11. Sulla80

    Sulla80 Well-Known Member

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    Zeus was the lead god of Olympus, Amun was the lead god in the religion of ancient Egypt. Zeus Ammon is illustrated on this coin:
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    Gordian III, BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt, dated RY 6 = AD 242-243
    Obv: A K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC EY, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
    Ref: Bust of Zeus-Ammon left, with ram's horn and crowned with globe, holding sceptre; LS in left field.
    Ref: Emmett 3436; Dattari (Savio) 10291

    "Alexander wanted to rival Perseus and Heracles, since he was descended from them both, and was also seeking to trace his birth back to Ammon, just as mythology traces that of Heracles and Perseus to Zeus."
    - Arrian of Nicomedia, Anabasis section 3.3.2

    Next: A ruler who claimed descent from a god or goddess
     
  12. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

    Denarius of Julius Caesar - descent from Venus and Anchises (gave birth to Aeneas, who was father to Iulus who was founder of Iulian line) as well as Mars and Rhea Silvia.

    next... more divine descent...

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  13. Ignoramus Maximus

    Ignoramus Maximus Nomen non est omen.

    His father claimed descent from Herakles, he himself settled for Ammon.
    He had the horns to prove it, so who am I to argue.:)
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    Next: a fourree stater, tetradrachm, or Republican denarius. Or just any fourree.
     
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  14. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

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    Marcus Antonius, Fourree denarius - Athens mint 32 BC
    ANTON AVG IMP III COS DES III III V R P C, bare head of Marcus Antonius right
    ANTONINVS / AVG IMP III in two lines
    3,52 gr
    Ref : RCV # 1478, HCRI # 347, RSC # 2, Cohen # 2

    Next : the reverse has nothing but writing on it

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  15. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Nothing but writing on the reverse:

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    Tiberius, AD 14-37.
    Roman orichalcum Dupondius, 14.32 g, 29.15 mm, 1 h.
    Rome, AD 22/23.
    Obv: PIETAS, veiled, diademed and draped bust of (Vipsania? as) Pietas, right.
    Rev: DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVGVSTI F TR POT ITER around large SC.
    Refs: RIC Tiberius 43; BMCRE Tiberius 98; CBN Tiberius 74; Cohen 1; RCV 1741.

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  16. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

    Here is a dark chocolate
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  17. Sulla80

    Sulla80 Well-Known Member

    This one may be familiar
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    Sicily, Syracuse, Timoleon, 344-336 BC, Æ Hemidrachm, Timoleontic Symmachy coinage, struck circa 342-339/8 BC
    Obv: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios, with mighty beard, right
    Rev: Thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right
    Ref: Garraffo Series A, c; Calciati II pg. 168, 72 st 1; SNG ANS 477; SNG Morcom 723

    Next: Mighty, with or without the beard
     
  18. JayAg47

    JayAg47 Well-Known Member

    Lucius Verus and his brother Marcus have one of the best Roman beards!
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    Next, a coin from the Caucasus.
     
  19. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

  20. Clavdivs

    Clavdivs Well-Known Member

    I am only doing what I was told....

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  21. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Check out this anguipedal monster in a scene from the gigantomachy?! Cool, huh?!

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    Volusian, AD 251-253.
    Roman provincial Æ 29.1 mm, 11.2 g, 6 h.
    Cilicia, Seleucia ad Calycadnum, AD 251-253.
    Obv: ΑV Κ ΓΑ ΟVΙΒ ϹΑΒΙΝ ΓΑΛΛΟϹ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
    Rev: ϹЄΛЄΥΚЄ-ΩΝ ΤΩ Π|ΡΟϹ Κ-ΑΛV|ΔΝ, Athena advancing right, brandishing spear, holding shield, attacking serpent-footed giant hurling stone with right hand.
    Refs: RPC IX, 1336; BMC 21.141,54; SNG von Aulock 5851; RG 4480 (SNG France 1055); SNG Levante 780.
    Notes: Double die match to SNG Levante 780 and RG 4480=SNG France 1055 (BnF); obverse die match to BMC 54.

    Next: Athena in combat.
     
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