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Message:: [QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3007629, member: 57495"]I really enjoyed that selection of Greek bronzes, [USER=76919]@Jbruce[/USER].  I notice you show us 5 different Greek gods on 5 coins.  I hope you won't mind my tagging on a few more to your thread. Zeus on a dilitron of Syracuse.[ATTACH=full]745424[/ATTACH]SICILY, SyracuseAE Dilitron. 21.31g, 27mm. SICILY, Syracuse, Timoleon and the Third Democracy, circa 336 - 317 BC. Calciati 80; SNG Cop 725. O: [ΖΕΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΣ], laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left. R: [ΣYPAKOΣIΩN], horse prancing left. Poseidon on a Macedonian serrate.[ATTACH=full]745425[/ATTACH]MACEDONIAN KINGDOM, Philip VAE25 Serrate. 10.0g, 25mm. Macedonian mint, time of Philip V and Perseus, circa 185-168 BC. SNG Cop 1294. O: Diademed head of Poseidon right, trident over shoulder. R: MAKE-ΔONΩN, club; monograms below left and right; all within oak wreath. This one is silver, but it shows my favorite portrait of Artemis on a coin.[ATTACH=full]745426[/ATTACH]MACEDONIARoman Protectorate, First MerisAR Tetradrachm. 16.84g, 32.7mm. MACEDONIA (as Roman Protectorate), First Meris, Amphipolis mint, circa 167 - 149 BC.  SNG Cop 1313; Prokopov 127.  O: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield.  R: Club; monogram above, two monograms below, MAKEΔONΩN above, ΠPΩTHΣ below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left.[/QUOTE]