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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 5440394, member: 82549"]Here's another example of the first coin:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4645561" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4645561" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4645561</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>"Roman Provincial </i></p><p><i>Syria, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Elagabalus. A.D. 218-222. AE 18 (18.32 mm, 5.33 g, 12 h). IMP C M AVR ANTONINVS, Radiate bust right, with slight drapery / LAVDICEON // ΔЄ, Herakles and Dionysus, both nude, grappling with one another like wrestlers; Herakles, on left, has a muscular body and is bearded, his club behind him in left field; Dionysus, on right, has long hair gathered in a bun; his thyrsos with knobbed ends is behind him in right field. SNG Hunterian 3224; Cf. BMC 105-8 var. (legend); Cf. SNG Copenhagen 373."</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Boy, they really read a lot into the reverse imagery, didn't they?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 5440394, member: 82549"]Here's another example of the first coin: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4645561[/URL] [I]"Roman Provincial Syria, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Elagabalus. A.D. 218-222. AE 18 (18.32 mm, 5.33 g, 12 h). IMP C M AVR ANTONINVS, Radiate bust right, with slight drapery / LAVDICEON // ΔЄ, Herakles and Dionysus, both nude, grappling with one another like wrestlers; Herakles, on left, has a muscular body and is bearded, his club behind him in left field; Dionysus, on right, has long hair gathered in a bun; his thyrsos with knobbed ends is behind him in right field. SNG Hunterian 3224; Cf. BMC 105-8 var. (legend); Cf. SNG Copenhagen 373." [/I] Boy, they really read a lot into the reverse imagery, didn't they?[I][/I][/QUOTE]
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