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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8298117, member: 120820&quot;]Nice write up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kanishka I didrachm Helios 127AD, 22mm 8.4g (year 1 - greek legends)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467647[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Kanishka I tetradrachm Mithro (Mithras) 128-150AD, 26mm 16.9g (bactrian legends)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467648[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting that they depicted Mithras identically to Helios as a sun god. Is that because the Kushans decided they were equivalent (even if they really weren&#039;t)?</p><p><br /></p><p>I Just came across this atypical radiate Roman Mithras from the Carnuntum Mithraeum III.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.mithraeum.eu/album/monumenta/tauroctony_carnuntum_iii_034.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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