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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 5369608, member: 74834"]And if you are curious about how Jupiter would be looking when you met him in the street, here are some portraits. They are from Alexandria (Zeus Ammon) and from the Lower Danube (a Macedonian Zeus), that would be between Bucharest and the Black Sea. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1228836[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt. Alexandria, Antoninus Pius AE Drachm. Year IH = 18 = 154/5. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r., seen from behind. Rev. Bust of Zeus-Ammon r., year IH to the right. 34 mm, 23.81 gr. Emmett 1700. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1228843[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian, potin tetradrachm Alexandria 292/3. Obv. Laureate and cuirassed bust right. Rev. Bust of Zeus right, slight drapery on shoulder, wearing taenia; L ENATOY = RY 9 (AD 292/3) before and behind Zeus. 18 mm, 6.84 gr. Emmett 4086.9. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1228846[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thracian imitation by an uncertain issuer from the 350-300 BC period, Lower Danube. Early imitation of a Philip II tetradrachm of Amphipolis. Fourrée (at the edge some giveaway spots). Obv. Laureate head of Zeus t.r., behind it, a leaf. Rev. Jockey and horse riding t.r. Under it, labda over a bucranium. Under the prancing leg of the horse, an A. 24.5 mm, 13.85 gr.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 5369608, member: 74834"]And if you are curious about how Jupiter would be looking when you met him in the street, here are some portraits. They are from Alexandria (Zeus Ammon) and from the Lower Danube (a Macedonian Zeus), that would be between Bucharest and the Black Sea. [ATTACH=full]1228836[/ATTACH] Egypt. Alexandria, Antoninus Pius AE Drachm. Year IH = 18 = 154/5. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r., seen from behind. Rev. Bust of Zeus-Ammon r., year IH to the right. 34 mm, 23.81 gr. Emmett 1700. [ATTACH=full]1228843[/ATTACH] Diocletian, potin tetradrachm Alexandria 292/3. Obv. Laureate and cuirassed bust right. Rev. Bust of Zeus right, slight drapery on shoulder, wearing taenia; L ENATOY = RY 9 (AD 292/3) before and behind Zeus. 18 mm, 6.84 gr. Emmett 4086.9. [ATTACH=full]1228846[/ATTACH] Thracian imitation by an uncertain issuer from the 350-300 BC period, Lower Danube. Early imitation of a Philip II tetradrachm of Amphipolis. Fourrée (at the edge some giveaway spots). Obv. Laureate head of Zeus t.r., behind it, a leaf. Rev. Jockey and horse riding t.r. Under it, labda over a bucranium. Under the prancing leg of the horse, an A. 24.5 mm, 13.85 gr.[/QUOTE]
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