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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3429065, member: 103829&quot;]Dear Andres2,</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for posting your coins. Only the interpretation of the opposing heads on the coins from Istros is not finally clarified until today. According to Gabriel Talmatchi a Romanian numismatist there is more than one explanation related to this coin&#039;s design:</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) <b>Istros&#039;s (Danube) two branches, one to Adriatic Sea and one to Black Sea </b></p><p>Vossius, Observationes ad pomponum Mela de situ orbis, 1658, p. 38; H. Hommel, Das Doppelgesicht auf den Münzen von Istros, in Beiträge zur alten Geschichte und deren Nachleben, în Festschrift für Franz Altheim zum 6. 10. 1968, Berlin 1, 1969, p. 261-272.</p><p><br /></p><p>(2) <b>Dioscures</b></p><p>J. Eckhel, Doctrina numorum veterum, II, Vindobona, 1792, p. 14-15; M. Golescu, Tot monetele de la Histria, în BSNR, 27-28, 1933-1934, 81-82, p. 94-96.</p><p><br /></p><p>(3) <b>Apollo - Helios </b></p><p>B. Head, Historia Nummorum, A manual of greek Numsimatics, II, London, 1963, p. 274.</p><p><br /></p><p>(4) <b>Apollo</b></p><p>G. Severeanu, Despre drahma istriană, în BSNR, 15, 1920, p. 22.</p><p><br /></p><p>(5) <b>Wind gods from Istros </b></p><p>B. Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-griechelands (AMNG), I. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Berlin 1898, p. 181.</p><p><br /></p><p>(6) <b>Two opposite gods (Black Sea and Danube) </b></p><p>R. Netzhammer, Ceva nou despre Istros, în Revista Catolică, 1, 1912, 3, p. 355-356; C. Moisil, Cele mai vechi monete din Istros, in BSNR, 16, 1921, 40, p. 108-112.</p><p><br /></p><p>(7) <b>Opposite flows from the Danube&#039;s Delta </b></p><p>L. Ruzicka, Inedita aus Moesia Inferior, în NZ, Wien, 1917, p. 103; idem, Despre cele mai vechi monede din Istros, in CNA, 4, 1923, 1, p. 2-4.</p><p><br /></p><p>(8) <b>Two Getic slaves </b></p><p>T. V. Blavatskaya, Zapadnopontiskye goroda v VII-I vekakh ery., Moscow, 1952, p. 202, 213.</p><p><br /></p><p>(9) <b>Two Histrian slaves </b></p><p>J. Hind, The trade in getic slaves and the silver coins of Istria, în Actes du Symposium International, 7-12 octobre 1991, Sozopol, p. 154.</p><p><br /></p><p>(10) <b>Istros itself (young) </b></p><p>J. Hind, Istrian faces and the river Danube, în NC, 7, 1970, 10, p. 7-17.</p><p><br /></p><p>(11) <b>Cabiri </b></p><p>V. P. Alexeev, Semantika aversnogo tipa serebrjanyh istrijskih monet V-IV vv. do n. e., in Numizmatika Antičnogo Pričernomorija, Kiev, 1982, p. 106.<a href="http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/bibliotheca/xxi/03.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/bibliotheca/xxi/03.htm" rel="nofollow">http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/bibliotheca/xxi/03.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One should consider that the representation of these two opposing heads no longer appears in the imperial period, which does not apply to the reverse. According to Pick, this suggests that these two heads represent something that no longer existed in the imperial period.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have attached my coin, AMNG I/1 421:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]910548[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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