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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3381896, member: 82322&quot;]Amazing stater [USER=37707]@iamtiberius[/USER] and good write-up [USER=99716]@Jochen[/USER] .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a chance read _The Amazons_ by Adrienne Mayor.&nbsp; Professor Mayor has a theory about the Amazon depicted on the staters of Soloi.&nbsp; She believes she is Antiope.&nbsp; She lays out the theory and why Soloi choice her on page 265.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another ancient Amazon, this one of Amisos.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]898046[/ATTACH] </p><p>Pontos, Amisos, 85-65 BC, 5.99g, 20-21mm</p><p>Obv: Andromeda or Amazon head in wolf (ketos?) skin</p><p>Rev: ΑΜΙ-ΣΟΥ; Nike</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal theory is that this coin has the features of Hypsicratea, the Scythian wife of Mithradates.&nbsp; His artisans liked to use his features on his coins of Perseus.&nbsp; It makes sense that this coin, long believed to be either Andromeda or an Amazon, is Hypsicratea.&nbsp; I have no way to prove this however.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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