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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8151676, member: 128351&quot;]Very interesting, thanks ! </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a curious medallion of Commodus, probably a New Year medallion of 187 AD, with Janus/Commodus. The reverse is &quot;Tellus stabilita&quot;... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1421947[/ATTACH] </p><p>Not my coin, but I wish it were... </p><p><br /></p><p>Janiform heads were depicted on archaic and classical Greek coins of the late 6th - 5th c. BC, especially in Lampsakos and Tenedos. But the Greek frequently represented 2 different faces : a young / mature man, or woman / man. I have a janiform Greek coin of that sort but it is a fake :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1421948[/ATTACH]&nbsp; too bad <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>They also made janiform vases in Athens in the early 5th c. with black male / white female. I suppose they wanted to associate what was the most opposed. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1421949[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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