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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 3227684, member: 76111&quot;]I ran across this write up on a coin that is up for auction from the Andrew McCabe collection at CNG right now.&nbsp; I had no idea that Sekhmet was a Marvel Comic book character too.&nbsp; Pretty cool.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/sekhmet/4005-48726/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/sekhmet/4005-48726/" rel="nofollow">https://comicvine.gamespot.com/sekhmet/4005-48726/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]842043[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Andrew McCabe Collection.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The goddess Sekhmet on the obverse of this rare type is the only instance I can recall of an alien – non-Roman and non-Greek – god on a coin of the Roman Republic, and the only appearance of Sekhet or Sekhmet on an ancient coin. This is also the rarest of the Metellus Scipio and Crassus Junior RRC 460 types. In Egyptian religion, Sekhmet was a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Ra. Sekhmet was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine. She was the companion of the god Ptah and was worshipped principally at Memphis, and is depicted as a lioness or as a woman with the head of a lioness, on which was placed the solar disk and the uraeus serpent (Britannica). The significance of placing a wholly African god on a Roman coin may have been an appeal to local mercenaries or influential supporters of the Pompeian regime. Sekhmet is a cult figure in a number of gaming and graphic storyline arenas. For example, as a psychopomp goddess (guiding dead souls) worshipped in Wakanda in the Marvel comic series. Her appeal transcends generations and media types in a way few Roman Republican coins can. The figure of Sekhmet is artistically engraved with details well-preserved on this old-toned coin. Of course, the coin also has a backside and the reverse with Victory lands us back in the conventional Roman civil war arena, with a brave son of Crassus and an arrogant and unliked descendant of Scipio sharing moneyer roles. [Andrew McCabe]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]842041[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=370031" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=370031" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=370031</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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