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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 8083508, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>Tryphon. Houghton CSE 259 var: no Dioscuroi caps.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1404161[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Newell, in &quot;<i>The Seleucid Mint of Antioch</i>&quot;, p. 73, prefers the allusion to the old Macedonian custom of proclamation by the army: &quot;The Macedonian helmet chosen for the reverse type of all these issues has direct reference to the claim of Tryphon that, - according to the time honored Macedonian custom, - he was supposed to have been unanimously elected by free Macedonian soldiers in open assembly. There may also be intended a punning reference to his name, for in both Homer and Hesiod a helmet is sometimes called τρυφαλεια.&quot; Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, <i>SC II</i>, Vol. I, p. 337, note that the horn on Tryphon’s helmet does not closely resemble short horns which adorn a Macedonian helmet on Roman republican denarii celebrating the defeat of Philip V of Macedon, but it rather recalls the lavishly endowed wild goats depicted on various Thraco-Macedonian coinages of the archaic and classical periods.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Next: Horns</span></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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