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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4605622, member: 99456&quot;]No shortage of &quot;drool-worthy&quot; tetradrachms [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER], [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], [USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER], [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER], [USER=104887]@Broucheion[/USER], [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER], [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]...any hope that this thread would cure me of my interest in coins of Alexandria is fading.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an <a href="http://www.coinsofromanegypt.org/html/library.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsofromanegypt.org/html/library.htm" rel="nofollow">on-line resource</a> that I have found recently for these coins.&nbsp; There is an interesting library which has an <a href="http://www.coinsofromanegypt.org/html/library/NFA/plates/NFA_pl_06.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsofromanegypt.org/html/library/NFA/plates/NFA_pl_06.htm" rel="nofollow">NFA Fall 1991</a> sale catalog and a few other resources with nicely digitized plates.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I will add one more coin to the mix with the syncretic god Hermanubis, a combination of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Anubis - in the Roman representation, leaning to Greek sensibilities, he is a fully anthropomorphic young god, losing the jackal head of Anubis and gaining attributes of Hermes.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140848[/ATTACH]</p><p>Egypt, Alexandria, <b>Claudius II Gothicus</b>, 268-270 AD, BI Tetradrachm (9.49g), Regnal Year 2 (269/270)</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Laureate and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Nude bust of Hermanubis right, draped over left shoulder, upright palm-winged caduceus to right</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Dattari 5392</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">&quot;Osiris has a name made up from &quot;holy&quot; (hosion) and &quot;sacred&quot; (hieron); for he is the combined relation of the things in the heavens and in the lower world, the former of which it was customary for people of olden time to call sacred and the latter to call holy. But the relation which discloses the things in the heavens and belongs to the things which tend upward is sometimes named Anubis and sometimes Hermanubis as belonging in part to the things above and in part to the things below. For this reason they sacrifice to him on the one hand a white cock and on the other hand one of saffron colour, regarding the former things as simple and clear, and the others as combined and variable.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="3">-Plutarch, <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Isis_and_Osiris*/D.html#61" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Isis_and_Osiris*/D.html#61" rel="nofollow">Isis and Osiris, 61</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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