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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 2604704, member: 78411&quot;]Probably my last coin of the year- a new variety from Tarsus featuring Herakles-Sandan above Acheloios as a winged MFB.&nbsp; I wrote a bit about these special dies in Potamikon, but I&#039;ve discovered much more since then.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read a Celator article from way back that mentioned Dio Chrysostom- apparently he visited Tarsus and spoke about the pyre built for <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hercules" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hercules" rel="nofollow">Herakles</a>, which mimics the story of <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" rel="nofollow">his</a> deification on Mt. Oeta.&nbsp; The best <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" rel="nofollow">part</a> is, that story, from Sophocles&#039; Trachiniae, is all about Acheloios too- the fight is mentioned twice, <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hercules" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hercules" rel="nofollow">Herakles</a> has just ravaged the land of the &quot;<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=good" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=good" rel="nofollow">good</a><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1802" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1802" rel="nofollow">bull</a>&quot; (<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=euboea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=euboea" rel="nofollow">Euboea</a>), Kypris plays an essential role, and water (read Acheloios, as Sophocles equates the two in framgment 4) activates the cloak that tortures <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hercules" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hercules" rel="nofollow">Herakles</a>!&nbsp; There&#039;s much more too that I&#039;m including in an essay about the play and this coin <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a>. Clearly, the original artist knew the tradition well!</p><p><br /></p><p>My new coin (different monogram):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]569127[/ATTACH]</p><p>Close-up of riginal from Potamikon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]569128[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Related Forvm thread:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=102743.msg669109#msg669109" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=102743.msg669109#msg669109" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=102743.msg669109#msg669109</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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