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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2812084, member: 87200&quot;]Great point [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] and a nice example of the head of Amon-Ra. The Greeks (and after them, the Romans) tended to favor the syncretic Egyptian-Greco deities such as Serapis, Isis, and so on for the coinage, though Isis was originally an Egyptian goddess that became popular with the Ptolemaic rulers, eventually spreading throughout the roman empire after the time of Cleopatra. One thing potentially holding Khnum back was the 2nd century B.C.E. prophecy of the Oracle of the Potter (potter being Khnum) which predicted the demise of Alexandria and the return to prominence of the Egyptian people and their old gods. The god Thoth (wisdom and scribes) was associated with Hermes by the Ptolemies, resulting in the character of Hermes Trismegistus, which was popular in Egypt up until the time of the neoplatonists in the 3rd century C.E. If I recall correctly there are some later 4th century imperial bronzes that featured the Anubis festival on the reverse, but I don&#039;t have any examples of this type.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anybody is interested here&#039;s a link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_of_the_Potter" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_of_the_Potter" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_of_the_Potter</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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