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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3874720, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks for that write-up.&nbsp; It&#039;s always been fascinating to me how ancient Egyptian religion and iconography not just persisted, but evolved through the ages, even being disseminated far beyond the lands of its origin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Festival of Isis issue, with Isis depicted much the same as on the Claudius II type, but in the time of Valens some 100 years later.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023628[/ATTACH] <b>VALENS. Festival of Isis.</b></p><p>AE4. 1.11g, 12.7mm. Rome mint, circa AD 364-378. Festival of Isis issue. Vagi -; Cohen VIII -; Alföldi -; Tesorillo online 6/29 (this coin illustrated). O: D N VALEN S P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: VOTA PVBLICA, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla.</p><p><i>Unpublished in the standard references and possibly unique.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the jar depicted on this next one would be a Wild Type B?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023633[/ATTACH]<b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>Billon Tetradrachm. 11.83g, 24.7mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 2 = AD 138/9. Dattari 2179; Emmett 1373.1; RPC Online 13409 (14 spec.). O: Bare head right, with trace of drapery on shoulder. R: ETO-VC B, Osiris-Canopus, crowned with horns, disk, plumes and uraei, standing on cushion, right.</p><p><i>Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1981.445)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Another Isis, in the &quot;ain’t pretty but it’s mine&quot; category. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023634[/ATTACH]<b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE Drachm. 25.0g, 35.4mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 12 = AD 148/9. Emmett 1592.12; Dattari 2678 (2676?); RPC Online 14907. O: Laureate head right. R: Isis Pharia standing right, holding sail and sistrum; before, Pharos of Alexandria; L (below) DWDEKATOV (around). </p><p><i>Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1982.1960)</i></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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