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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 8255107, member: 96898&quot;]Nice idea for a thread! Some of the coins shown here could almost tempt me to add Roman provincial coinage to my collecting interests.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Duly noted. I&#039;ll try to keep safe distance from any drunk individual dressed in leopard print and frantically wielding a large thyrsus stick...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a Greek Dionysos and a Roman Bacchus/Liber. I particularly like the second coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1455203[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Kingdom of Cappadocia, under Archelaus, Æ18, 24/23 BC (?), Eusebeia mint. Obv: Head Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev: EVΣΕ – ΒΕΙΑΣ, eagle over Mount Argaios. 18mm, 5.02g. Ref: RPC I, 3610.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1455204[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, denarius, 194 AD, Rome mint. Obv: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP III, head of Septimius Severus, laureate, r. Rev: LIBERO PATRI, Bacchus (Liber), wreathed, naked except for cloak over left arm, emptying oenochoe in r. hand over panther, and holding garlanded thyrsus in l. hand 17.5mm, 2.53g. Ref: RIC IV.1 Septimius Severus 32.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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