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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4962119, member: 57495&quot;]The oracular Snake God Glycon was apparently no more than a hand puppet dressed in a blonde wig and a fish tail, but that didn&#039;t stop its cult for being widely popular for more than a hundred years.&nbsp; It was probably not so much the case that its owner, Alexander of Abonoteichus, was a snake oil salesman of the first degree, but the sad fact that people have been prone to gullibility since the dawn of time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Trivia: Even today, Glycon has at least one famous follower, <a href="https://www.wired.com/2006/11/alan-moore-acol/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wired.com/2006/11/alan-moore-acol/" rel="nofollow">Alan Moore</a>, writer of,&nbsp; amongst other things, the Watchmen and V for Vendetta.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1192877[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE24. 6.39g, 23.8mm. THRACE, Pautalia, AD 180-192. Varbanov 4565; RPC Online IV.1 temp 8913. O: ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: ΟΥΛΠΙΑC ΠΑ-ΥΤΑ/ΛΙΑC, the serpent Glykon wearing wig and with fish tail coiled right, feeding from altar to right; tree or branch to left. </p><p><i>Ex E.L. Collection (Germany); ex Helios Auktion 3, 2009, lot 157</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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