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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2948665, member: 74834&quot;]Two years ago I joined CoinTalk. It has influenced my collection quite a lot: I focused more on Roman coinage, especially Provincial - because of the artistic quality of some and wild eccentricity of other coins. I love to virtually visit (with Google Earth) places in Turkey that once were thriving little Roman Greek towns, of which I happened to have acquired an interesting ancient object. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is my best (and most expensive) Roman provincial of 2017, an Alexandrian tetradrachm (22 mm, 13.89 gr.) of Gordian III, dated year 7 = 243/4. Gordian died in February 244 in or after a lost battle against the Persians near Ctesipon. On the reverse we see Tyche leaning left on a lectisternium, a dining couch imagining a banquet for the gods. It is one of the details of Roman imperial religion that&#039;s not so easy for me to understand. </p><p><br /></p><p>The rudder is an attribute of Tyche, and so it looks as if she is lazily rowing in an opened box. But probably the Egyptian Romans didn&#039;t see it that way. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]719754[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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