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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3107260, member: 19463&quot;]We rarely get an original subject here anymore but this is a good one.&nbsp; I find the six pairings an interesting idea.&nbsp; We have the king and queen; strength and wisdom; war and love.&nbsp; Apollo is the male who best displayed a feminine side while his sister Diana, the huntress, had no problem keeping up with the boys.&nbsp; Vulcan and Vesta gave us the commonly paired concepts of hearth and home.&nbsp; I am at a bit of a loss to tie up Mercury and Ceres in a neat little package like the others.&nbsp; Help, please!</p><p><br /></p><p>Religions tend to develop over time.&nbsp; The twelve here had to yield a bit in later days to new (to Rome) gods which also came as a pair.&nbsp; Here is Isis and Serapis from the time of Commodus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]787580[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>We were challenged to show coins of the twelve.&nbsp; Some are easier than others. Most difficult will be to show coins with the pairs shown together. I doubt there are very many of the six pairs.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know I do not have them.</p><p>Apollo and Diana.</p><p>&nbsp;SEVERUS ALEXANDER SELEUCIA AD CALYCADNUM 222-235 AD </p><p>AE25&nbsp; ARTEMIS/APOLLO BUSTS ex. Ken Dorney 1999&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]787581[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll rush to be third to show the Valerian Vulcan.&nbsp; Who has a different coin of this god?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]787583[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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