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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 6714963, member: 86498&quot;]Phokaia El Hekte 387-326 BC Obv Head of Omphale wearing Lion skin headdress left club behind below seal anepigraphic. Rv Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt 107 2.51 grms 11 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1270858[/ATTACH]It is interesting to see that the myth of Omphale resonated with the mint masters of Phokaia as they chose to place her image on a coin.&nbsp; My suspicion as to how this image can be differentiated from those of a beardless Herakles such as those found on the contemporary coinage of the Kingdom of Macedon is that in this case the lionskin headdress looks rather more like a typical veil worn by women and seen on many contemporary coins. Her story and image survives as it is the classic example of role reversal in the ancient world and conjured up many times most famously when Octavian&#039;s propagandists where commenting on the perceived similarities in the relationship between Cleopatra and Marc Antony.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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