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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4522214, member: 99456"][USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] - I am very late in discovering this post, thanks for another interesting write-up and a fantastic coin. Here is my Glykon Quatrassaria from Tomis. The statue in the OP from Tomis (Constanta, Romania) is also on the stamp of [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycon#/media/File:Glycon.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycon#/media/File:Glycon.JPG" rel="nofollow">here</a> on wikipedia - taken as evidence of the cult's presence in Tomis. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a fun article with some entertaining stories of Alexander the Paphlagonian: Dalziel, D. (1936). <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/641315" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/641315" rel="nofollow">Alexander the Greater</a>. <i>Greece & Rome,</i> <i>5</i>(14), 90-97. It begins:</p><p><font size="4"><i>"The claim that Alexander the Paphlagonian is greater than his Macedonian namesake is perhaps hardly to be taken seriously, yet an ingenious pro-Paphlagonian might argue with justice that his Alexander 'conquered' a large part of the Roman Empire; that this conquest was almost bloodless; and that the story of it appeals to the sense of humour, which is more than can be said for the history of Philip's filibustering son."</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120298[/ATTACH]</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Tomis, <b>Gordian III, with Tranquillina</b>, AD 238-244, Æ Quatrassaria</p><p><b>Obv:</b> AVT K M ANT GORDIANOC AVG CE TPANKVLLINA, Confronted busts of Gordian and Tranquillina</p><p><b>Rev:</b> MHTPO PONTOV TOMEWC, coiled serpent with head up to left; Δ (denomination) in right field</p><p><b>Ref: </b><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/moushmov/tomis.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/moushmov/tomis.html" rel="nofollow">Moushmov 2275</a> (<a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/gordian_III/_tomis_AE27_Moushmov_2275.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/gordian_III/_tomis_AE27_Moushmov_2275.jpg" rel="nofollow">coin</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4522214, member: 99456"][USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] - I am very late in discovering this post, thanks for another interesting write-up and a fantastic coin. Here is my Glykon Quatrassaria from Tomis. The statue in the OP from Tomis (Constanta, Romania) is also on the stamp of [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycon#/media/File:Glycon.JPG']here[/URL] on wikipedia - taken as evidence of the cult's presence in Tomis. Here is a fun article with some entertaining stories of Alexander the Paphlagonian: Dalziel, D. (1936). [URL='http://www.jstor.org/stable/641315']Alexander the Greater[/URL]. [I]Greece & Rome,[/I] [I]5[/I](14), 90-97. It begins: [SIZE=4][I]"The claim that Alexander the Paphlagonian is greater than his Macedonian namesake is perhaps hardly to be taken seriously, yet an ingenious pro-Paphlagonian might argue with justice that his Alexander 'conquered' a large part of the Roman Empire; that this conquest was almost bloodless; and that the story of it appeals to the sense of humour, which is more than can be said for the history of Philip's filibustering son."[/I][/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]1120298[/ATTACH] Moesia Inferior, Tomis, [B]Gordian III, with Tranquillina[/B], AD 238-244, Æ Quatrassaria [B]Obv:[/B] AVT K M ANT GORDIANOC AVG CE TPANKVLLINA, Confronted busts of Gordian and Tranquillina [B]Rev:[/B] MHTPO PONTOV TOMEWC, coiled serpent with head up to left; Δ (denomination) in right field [B]Ref: [/B][URL='http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/moushmov/tomis.html']Moushmov 2275[/URL] ([URL='http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/gordian_III/_tomis_AE27_Moushmov_2275.jpg']coin[/URL])[/QUOTE]
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