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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6429644, member: 110350&quot;]Most of my Greek coins are silver, but I do have one bronze with a Greek Olympian, namely Dionysos:</p><p><br /></p><p>Lydia, Philadelphia, AE 17, Late 2nd/Early 1st Centuries BCE, Hermippos, son of Hermogenes [father&#039;s name known from other coins], archiereus [magistrate]. Obv. Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy-wreath and band across forehead, [Φ]ΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕ[ΩΝ] vertically behind / Rev. Spotted pantheress [leopard] walking left, with head turned back to right, cradling thyrsos bound with fillet (ribbon) against left shoulder, right foreleg raised; ΑΡΧΙΕΡ-ΕΥΣ above, ΕΡΜΙΠΠΟΣ in exergue. Seaby II 4720 [Sear, D., <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. II, Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979), at p. 430 (ill.)]; BMC 22 Lydia 16 [Head, B.V. <i>A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Lydia</i> (London 1901) at p. 189]; SNG Von Aulock II 3057; SNG Copenhagen 340; Imhoof-Blumer 8; Mionnet IV No. 536. 17 mm., 5.02 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1254413[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m expecting one more soon, and will post it when it arrives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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