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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2657219, member: 56859&quot;]And here&#039;s a lesser version of that drachm, although the wear is nicely even and it still has great appeal to me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Same year, bust left.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_52f0962d57074e31b2e08620eaf7f924~mv2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Antoninus Pius</b></p><p>year 14, CE 150/1</p><p>AE drachm, 34 mm, 28.8 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; Laureate bust of Antoninus Pius left</p><p>Rev:&nbsp;&nbsp; Triptolemos driving biga of winged serpents right; L IΔ above</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Emmett 1683.14</p><p><br /></p><p>Since we&#039;ve broken out Triptolemos, here&#039;s another although some imagination is required to see the snake-drawn chariot.&nbsp; It looks more like a winged wheelchair <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/atticaeleusistriptolemosmed-jpg.361295/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ATTICA, Athens.&nbsp; Eleusis mint</b></p><p>Eleusinian festival coinage</p><p>340-335 BC</p><p>AE16</p><p>Obv: Triptolemos, seated left in a winged chariot drawn by two snakes</p><p>Rev: Pig standing right on mystic staff, (bucranium below?)</p><p>Ref: SNG Cop 415</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=152207" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=152207" rel="nofollow">From CNG&#039;s archives</a>:</p><p>The obverse is inspired by a statue of Triptolemos that was presumably still in its temple when Pausanias (I. 38, 6) visited Eleusis in about AD 160: “The Eleusians have a temple to Triptolemos... They say that the plain called Rharion was the first to be sown and the first to grow crops... Here is shown a threshing floor and altar. My dream forbade the description of the things within the wall of the sanctuary, and the uninitiated are of course not permitted to learn that which they are prevented from seeing.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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