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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3538115, member: 75937&quot;]This toned antoninianus of Herennius Etruscus as Caesar features Apollo seated, holding a branch and leaning on a lyre. This is a common motif for Apollo, and I believe it&#039;s based upon sculptures of Actian Apollo, which depict the god in a similar pose and with identical accouterments. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post your coins of Apollo, Herennius Etruscus, or anything you feel is relevant! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940302[/ATTACH] </p><p>Herennius Etruscus as Caesar, AD 249-251.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.83 g, 22.4 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, 5th emission, early AD 151.</p><p>Obv: Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C, radiate and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, Apollo seated left, holding branch and resting left elbow on lyre.</p><p>Refs: RIC 146; RSC 24a; Cohen --; RCV 9522; Hunter 9; ERIC II 40.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actian Apollo sits in an attitude of comfortable repose, holding aloft a laurel branch in his right hand and resting his left arm on a lyre. The iconography on the coin&#039;s reverse shares a number of features with this depiction of the god, as seen in a bas relief sculpted on an altar called the Gens Augusta, erected by the freedman Hedulus in Carthage ca 14 CE:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940304[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This image is just one of many images on this altar, which was found on the east slope of the Byrsa and now resides in the Musée du Bardo in Tunis. </p><p><br /></p><p>Note that Apollo is holding a leafy branch in his right hand. Although the left arm has been broken off, it takes little imagination to envision it resting on the lyre to the left of his throne. This iconography -- apparently stemming from no later than the reign of Augustus -- seems to have remained in the collective Roman psyche for&nbsp; nearly two-and-a-half centuries after the reign of its first emperor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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