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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3428778, member: 75937&quot;]There are only a few coins in my collection depicting river gods. This is my favorite:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/postumus-salvs-provinciarvm-jpg.869531/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Postumus, AD 260-269.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 2.54 g, 22.4 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Trier (some attribute to Cologne), 1st emission, 2nd phase, AD 260-261.</p><p>Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: SALVS PROVINCIARVM, river god Rhinus, bearded and horned, reclining left, resting right hand on boat and holding anchor in left, left arm resting on urn.</p><p>Refs: RIC 87; RSC 355b; Mairat 1-5; RCV 10991; AGK 88c; De Witte 290; Hunter p. lxxxviii.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Rhine River is personified as having horns because the river itself was known by the Latin epithet <i>bicornis</i> (two-horned) in antiquity because the Rhine empties itself into the North Sea via two channels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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