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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3879181, member: 87200&quot;]No Ptah yet for me. I find it kind of curious to see which gods were picked out to feature on the Alexandrian coinage and who made the decision. Some are minor deities such as Triptolemus and the serpent Agathadaemon or Nilos.&nbsp; Other times Isis is depicted and in this case Ptah-Sokar-Osiris as a triad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why no Khnum the potter, Sobek (though one could argue that the small crocodile on the reverse of coins featuring Nilos is a representation Sobek), Amun-Ra and so forth? And why not Hermes Trimegistus, the very popular thrice-holy Hermes of the 2nd and third century A.D., equated with the god Thoth, lord of scribes and wisdom.</p><p><br /></p><p>The city containing the main temple of Thoth at modern El-Ashmunein was known as Hermopolis after Hermes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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