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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2907511, member: 82322&quot;]Thanks Mike.&nbsp; Here is an example from my collection of a not-so-rare coin that may hold the kind of information you describe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701536[/ATTACH] </p><p>PISIDIA, Etenna, AE16, 3.7g</p><p>Obv: Woman with snake; tipped pitcher beside</p><p>Rev: ET-EN Curved knife</p><p><br /></p><p>Barclay Head wrote in <i>Historia Numorum</i> that &quot;These types may represent a local myth of a nymph attacked by a serpent and rescued by a hero (Imhoof, <i>Kl. M.</i>, pp. 369 ff.).&quot;&nbsp; The local myth has not come down to us.&nbsp; A paper by N V. Sekunda, &#039;Anatolian War-Sickles and the Coinage of Etenna&#039;, tries to deduce what the myth was about.&nbsp; (There are super-rare Provincial coins also depicting the myth, but in this case the ordinary coin does the job.)&nbsp; We also see this in vases -- the depictions show us things that we don&#039;t get from written sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are probably a lot of coins depicting local myths that we don&#039;t know about.&nbsp; How often do you see a coin depicting &quot;Athena&quot; or &quot;Apollo&quot; or &quot;Zeus&quot;?&nbsp; It is likely many of them depict a local version or completely different figure.&nbsp; Some professor proclaimed 200 years ago that since the face is beardless it must be Apollo.&nbsp; We don&#039;t even think about other possibilities any more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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