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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4718881, member: 56859"]I'll take tails since the odds are 3:2 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, this one is now added to the list <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Okay <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>A snake atop a horse... not just plopped atop but holding onto the reins. Yeehah, giddyup!</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian.</b> Regnal year 10, CE 90/91. Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h). AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right / Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5).</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110; Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 316; Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Appearances: Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 39 (this coin). Obverse illustrated in Emmett as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (this coin); fully illustrated in Emmett, p. 26 (this coin, discussing the unusual reverse).</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is described more or less as a snake coiled atop a horse but it looks like it may be a snake-encircled baetyl atop a horse.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/caracalla-philadelphia-serpentonhorse-nn-rt-jpg.759310/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>LYDIA, Philadelphia. Caracalla</b>. Æ 31, 16.7 gm, CE 198-217. Ioulianos, strategos. AVT K M AVP ANTΩNЄINOC; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI CTPA IOVΛIANOV A ΠOΛ ΦIΛΑΔЄΛΦЄΩN; horse prancing left surmounted by serpent coiled left. BMC 85.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not many coins feature a closeup of a foot. Hmm, are there six toes on that foot? Maybe the ancestor of the Hemingway cats <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! (whaddya think, [USER=98768]@MeowtheKitty[/USER]? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/marcusaureliusdiobolserapisfoot-rt-jpg.867370/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius</b></p><p>AE diobol, 22.8 mm, 8.33 gm</p><p>RY 17 (176/7 CE)</p><p>Obv: MAVPHΛIOCANTωNINOC; laureate head right</p><p>Rev: right foot and ankle (of a statue of Serapis?), pointing right; draped bust right of Serapis above, wearing kalathos; LI[Z] in right field</p><p>Ref: Dattari (Savio) 3516; Emmett 2254.17 (this coin illustrated, p. 96); K&G 37.411 (this coin illustrated). Extremely rare. None in CoinArchives.</p><p><i>Ex WRG Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Part II, Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990), lot 130.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4718881, member: 56859"]I'll take tails since the odds are 3:2 :wacky: :D Yeah, this one is now added to the list :). Okay :D. A snake atop a horse... not just plopped atop but holding onto the reins. Yeehah, giddyup! [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/[/IMG] [B]EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian.[/B] Regnal year 10, CE 90/91. Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h). AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right / Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5). [I]Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110; Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 316; Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365.[/I] [I]Appearances: Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 39 (this coin). Obverse illustrated in Emmett as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (this coin); fully illustrated in Emmett, p. 26 (this coin, discussing the unusual reverse).[/I] This one is described more or less as a snake coiled atop a horse but it looks like it may be a snake-encircled baetyl atop a horse. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/caracalla-philadelphia-serpentonhorse-nn-rt-jpg.759310/[/IMG] [B]LYDIA, Philadelphia. Caracalla[/B]. Æ 31, 16.7 gm, CE 198-217. Ioulianos, strategos. AVT K M AVP ANTΩNЄINOC; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI CTPA IOVΛIANOV A ΠOΛ ΦIΛΑΔЄΛΦЄΩN; horse prancing left surmounted by serpent coiled left. BMC 85. Not many coins feature a closeup of a foot. Hmm, are there six toes on that foot? Maybe the ancestor of the Hemingway cats :woot:! (whaddya think, [USER=98768]@MeowtheKitty[/USER]? :D) [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/marcusaureliusdiobolserapisfoot-rt-jpg.867370/[/IMG] [B]EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius[/B] AE diobol, 22.8 mm, 8.33 gm RY 17 (176/7 CE) Obv: MAVPHΛIOCANTωNINOC; laureate head right Rev: right foot and ankle (of a statue of Serapis?), pointing right; draped bust right of Serapis above, wearing kalathos; LI[Z] in right field Ref: Dattari (Savio) 3516; Emmett 2254.17 (this coin illustrated, p. 96); K&G 37.411 (this coin illustrated). Extremely rare. None in CoinArchives. [I]Ex WRG Collection Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Part II, Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990), lot 130.[/I][/QUOTE]
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