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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8330734, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you for the great writeup. [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] . As always, I love the coins and other art you chose as illustrations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my most relevant coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>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 [associated with Hades] seated left on high-backed throne,&nbsp; crowned with modius, wearing himation, holding scepter in left hand, and extending right hand downwards toward Cerberus/Kerberos seated to left at his feet; L IH [= Year 18] in left field.&nbsp; RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5871 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871</a>;&nbsp; BMC 16 Alexandria 620-621 at p. 74 &amp; PL. XIII [Poole, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; Köln 1095 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Dattari (Savio) 1480 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Emmett 892.18 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1394 at p. 34 [Milne, J.G., <i>Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins </i>(Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)]; K&amp;G 32.571 [Kampmann, Ursula &amp; Ganschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i> (2008)]. 25 mm., 12.42 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hadrian-serapis-alexandria-year-18-jpg-version-jpg.1352273/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m afraid that Cerberus&#039;s three heads look more like an ordinary single head with two front paws on this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some illustrations of a famous myth involving Hades/Pluto, from my 1924 copy of &quot;A Child&#039;s Book of Myths,&quot; which belonged to my father. It was both written and illustrated by the well-known children&#039;s writer Margaret Evans Price. The illustrations are very 1920s-ish!</p><p><br /></p><p>Pluto chilling out in Hades, before he sees Proserpina:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/pluto-in-hades-jpeg.1437215/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pluto kidnaps Proserpina</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/pluto-kidnaps-proserpina-jpeg.1437216/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ceres is sad:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/illustration-of-ceres-from-a-childs-book-of-myths-jpg.1213900/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mercury to the rescue, sent by Jupiter:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/mercury-to-the-rescue-jpeg.1437218/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Proserpina eating the fateful seeds:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/proserpina-eating-pomegranate-seeds-jpeg.1437219/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And because the book missed its chance to depict the reunion of Proserpina and her mother, here&#039;s the scene on the reverse of my Antoninus Pius aureus depicting Ceres and Proserpina, with the latter holding a pomegranate:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/aureus-antoninus-pius-ceres-proserpina-arete-photo-jpg.1437015/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And they all lived happily ever after.</p><p><br /></p><p>The End.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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