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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3882201, member: 103829&quot;][USER=104887]@Broucheion[/USER]: Thank you very much for showing this coin. I have a similar one from Hadrian, but I wasn&#039;t aware that it was the crocodile god Sobek, because I have overlooked the sun disk. I was not alone: Förschner did not mention it in her description either. Sobek received the sun disk in the New Kingdom around 1400 B.C., because at that time he was considered to be a revelation of the sun god Re and was known as Sobek-Re. We must assume that Sobek-Re is also meant on these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are so-called Nome coins, which were minted in Alexandria for the individual Egyptian districts (Nomoi). In the Old Kingdom there were 38 Nomoi, which had emerged from principalities of the Neolithic (Wikipedia). They were ruled by princes, who were relatively independent from the central power of the Pharaoh. Each Nomos was assigned a deity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our two coins were minted for the Arsinoites Nome. It was added to the ancient Nomoi in the Greek-Roman period as the 21st Nome Noret-Pehet. Its capital was Arsinoe or Krokodilopolis, the today&#039;s Al-Fayum, a big city with more than 475000 inhabitants. His god was the crocodile god Sobek.</p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt, Alexandria, Arsinoites Nome, Hadrian, 117-138</p><p>AE - Dichalcum, 2.01g, 12.87mm, 30°, dichroic</p><p>struck AD 126/27 (year 11)</p><p>Obv.: laureated head n.r.</p><p>Rev.: Crocodile, sun disk on head, n.r. (Crocodile god Sobek)</p><p>in the upper field LIA (year 11)</p><p>in ex. APC (for Arsinoites)</p><p>Ref.: Milne -; Dattari 6212; Geissen 3383f.; SNG Copenhagen 1085; Förschner 1344 (sun disk not mentioned)</p><p>Scarce, VF, light green patina</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1025437[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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