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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3373161, member: 74834"]Here's a nice Roman Provincial coin of Anazarbos, a city in the inland of Cilicia, not far from current Adana. It shows Dionysos with a leopard: you can see his spots, or are they curls? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]894785[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p> AE27 Valerianus (253-260). Anazarbos in Cilicia. Obv: AVT K ΠΛIK OVAΛEPIANOC CE. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: ANAZAPBOV / Γ - Γ / ET BOC A M K. Dionysos seated left on panther (leopard, spotted!) crouching right. 27 mm, 14.62 gr.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3373161, member: 74834"]Here's a nice Roman Provincial coin of Anazarbos, a city in the inland of Cilicia, not far from current Adana. It shows Dionysos with a leopard: you can see his spots, or are they curls? [ATTACH=full]894785[/ATTACH] AE27 Valerianus (253-260). Anazarbos in Cilicia. Obv: AVT K ΠΛIK OVAΛEPIANOC CE. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: ANAZAPBOV / Γ - Γ / ET BOC A M K. Dionysos seated left on panther (leopard, spotted!) crouching right. 27 mm, 14.62 gr.[/QUOTE]
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