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Message:: [QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 3172260, member: 88401"]And then there was this unusual and amazing coin obtained from Brian Bucklan, which completed my collection. It has in my view a spectacular veiled goddess as the Grain Mother and beautiful woman, Demeter who native Americans call the Corn mother or spirit of the plant world. On the reverse are the sacred twins found depicted in various ways through out the global wisdom traditions including those that became the world's religions. The theme of my new collection(verses the one in my teens that I mosty let go) has  been related to how many ancient coins are a scroll of religious history which contain ancient streams of knowledge of what our world is really about. This coin with the goddess on one side and the twins on the reverse holds an involved teaching for those who have studied[ATTACH=full]815622[/ATTACH] the wisdom lineages- both Earth centered and sky centered.THRACE, Islands off. Thasos . Circa 2nd Century BC. Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter right / QASION, jugate busts of the Dioskouroi right; all within wreath. Le Rider, "Les Monnaies Thasiennes," in Guide de Thasos (1968), 40; BMC Thrace pg. 225, 102; SNG Copenhagen -; Laffaille -; Winterthur 1305. Provenance:Collection of the Spanish Historical Society of New York[/QUOTE]