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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 7608435, member: 87200&quot;]For some reason they picked this symbol of Sol (Greek Helios) as a feature on the Dupondius in relatively early times. The Ptolemaic kings occasionally wore radiate crowns on their gold coins, and similarly the Colossus of Rhodes with radiate crown was stamped on the coins of that city. Early on the crown came to symbolize a value of double the less valuable denomination (the as) and then this tradition was carried on in the silver antoninianus first issued by Caracalla.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note also that the crown disappears in the time of Maximian and Diocletian when the antoninianus ceased to be minted as well as the coin known as the post-reform radiate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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