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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3779732, member: 82322&quot;][USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] your coins look great, especially that Tigranes II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tarsos had a very similar Tyche depiction.&nbsp; That Tyche is holding poppies and wheat, and standing upon a different river-god, Kyndos.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009704[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cilicia, Tarsos, 164-27 BC, AE26, 13.54g</p><p>Obv: ΤΑΡΣΕΩΝ / ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ ΝΙΚΟ-ΛΑΟΝ; Zeus seated left, holding Nike with wreath and staff.</p><p>Rev: ΟΡΤΥΓΟΘΗ ΡΑ; Tyche seated right on stool, holding poppy and corn-ears, river-god Kyndos swimming right below.</p><p>Ref: SNG Levante 984, SNG Paris 1387 </p><p>ex-Stacks/Coin Galleries April 2005, lot 135</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t recall which catalog gave me the date of &quot;164-27 BC&quot; that I am using here.&nbsp; Probably I combined the earliest and latest dates from conflicting catalogs.&nbsp; I am not sure if this coin is earlier or later than your Tigranes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given how the arm is broken off I don&#039;t know how Visconti determined the statue is the Antioch version with palm and not the Tarsos version with poppy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tyche represents the local town.&nbsp; For Tarsos, the city&#039;s slogan might have been &quot;come for the wheat, stay for the opium (?) poppies.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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