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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3876796, member: 75937"]I don't believe the mythological figure of Orion the hunter appears on ancient coins. Marshall Faintich's <i>Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins</i> is quite encyclopedic and makes no mention of such. Moreover, a search at acsearch.info does not reveal any coins depicting the mythological hunter.</p><p><br /></p><p>The closest you'll get is a reference to the constellation Lepus, the hare which Orion and his hounds chase through the night sky:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024192[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It has been speculated that the hare depicted on <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=280373" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=280373" rel="nofollow">this 5th century BC coin</a> of Bruttium-Rhegion is related to Orion, god of the Strait of Messina, and therefore symbolizes the unity of Rhegion and Messana.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3876796, member: 75937"]I don't believe the mythological figure of Orion the hunter appears on ancient coins. Marshall Faintich's [I]Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins[/I] is quite encyclopedic and makes no mention of such. Moreover, a search at acsearch.info does not reveal any coins depicting the mythological hunter. The closest you'll get is a reference to the constellation Lepus, the hare which Orion and his hounds chase through the night sky: [ATTACH=full]1024192[/ATTACH] It has been speculated that the hare depicted on [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=280373']this 5th century BC coin[/URL] of Bruttium-Rhegion is related to Orion, god of the Strait of Messina, and therefore symbolizes the unity of Rhegion and Messana.[/QUOTE]
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