The untold story of Poseidon's escape from Hades in pictures and other tales

Awesome coins in this post! I particularly like the large tridents on several reverses. And here I thought Poseidon was just a ship that sank, & they made a movie about it!

 

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Thanks for all the warm replies and BONKERS beauties
That Agrippa is a stone cold beefcake @octavius
Mine has very pleasing patina and is an ex @GregH

(Like @lordmarcovan mine was minted in South Carolina by way of snap chat)

@Roman Collector and @Clavdivs showing me that there is a Claud Goth type that I now need!

Another beauty @Di Nomos
Reminded me of another Poliorketes of mine, a Drachm, with Poseidon (I just noticed I'd put the description of this coin under my new guy in OP and have fixed the error. Though, there are tetradrachms of the below type, there are no Drachms of my new tets style):

Demetrios I Poliorketes (306-283 BC). Drachm. Tarsos (?).
Obv: Nike standing left on prow, blowing trumpet.
Rev: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟY.
Poseidon standing left, hurling trident. Controls: Monogram to left and right.
Newell 44; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Lockett 957; HGC 3.1, 1016a. Fine. 4.10 g.
18 mm. Ex: Numismatik Naumann Gmbh

@Terence Cheesman again you spoil us with an absolute showstopper Every now and again I'll come across this type looking for MSCs.
I'll muddy the waters with another type debated to be in the name of either Gonatas or Doson *note the corn ears on the sides of the reverses helmet:

Macedonian Kingdom. Antigonos II Gonatas/Antigonos III Doson 277/6-239 B.C. Æ (19.4 MM AND 4.91 Sear 6786 OBV: Helmeted head of Athena right REV: Pan standing right, erecting trophy.
"Antigonus II (Antigonus Gonatas) 320-239 BC, was king of Macedon & son of Demetrius I. He took the title king on his father's death (283) but made good his claim only by defeating the Gauls in Thrace and by taking Macedon in 276.
A general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia; lost one eye; killed in a battle at Ipsus. Was known as Antigonos One-Eyed.Pan was the god of the wild, hunting and companion of the nymphs. He was depicted as being half human, while having the legs and horns of a goat, just like a faun; his Roman counterpart was Faunus. It is unclear as to who his parents were; his father may have been Zeus, Dionysus, Hermes, or Apollo. His mother may have been a nymph called Dryope, Penelope who later became the wife of Odysseus, or Aphrodite.
Recent scholarship indicates that the Pan types were issued past the death of Antigonos II, through the reigns of Demetrios II Aetolicus, Antigonos III Doson, and possibly even into Philip V’s reign. Furtwängler (Beobachtungen zur Chronologie antigonidischer Kupfermünzen im 3. Jh. V. Chr, Obolos 7 2004, pp. 277-290) assigns this issue to Antigonos III Doson, who led Macedon’s last resurgence before its final defeat (to the Romans) under Philip V and Perseus."

Very cool Kranon coin @Curtisimo (say that five times fast). Reminds me I've got a Philip II with Poseidon's dinner fork;


And wonderful Hadrian @Marsyas Mike Your Poseidon certainly doesn't skip leg day... that is one Maximus glutinous!

Lovely Syracusians @Andres2 and I really don't know how much longer I can hold out from buying one of those beauties from Calabria. Excellent example

Thanks for the link @Orange Julius I've already started reading it and will surely finish it this weekend

 

Yup!

 

Since you mentioned it, I'll show my dog of a tetradrachm. The thing is thick! It is hard to find one of these this terrible but the good ones are way out of my price range.


This AE13 is nicer but not as easy to find better. Does anyone know the exchange rate between these two coins?

 

@Ryro.....That's a great looking coin!.....Lovely colouring with the darker fields and lighter high spots which makes the coin 'Zing'!.....I really do like this type showing the epitome of Poseidon with the trident and dolphin depictions on the reverse...For this reason I also picked this type for my 12 Olympian gods set so here he is...
Sicily, Syracuse. Hieron II. 274-216 BC. Æ-Litra (19mm, 6.38g).
Obverse..Diademed head of Poseidon left with border of dots.
Reverse..ΙΕΡΩΝΟΣ, Ornate scroll decorated trident with lotiform shaft flanked by dolphins.
Ref:for type SNG Cop 844-856.
Note....You maybe interested in the legend break...

 

Thanks for the cool post as always @Ryro


L. Lucretius Trio. 74 BC. AR Denarius. (19mm, 4.04g). Rome mint.
Obverse: Laureate head of Neptune right, trident over shoulder; XXVI behind.
Reverse: Infant Genius riding dolphin right; L•LVCRETI TRIO below.
Crawford 390/2