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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4597253, member: 84744&quot;]Geez Ryro, that isn&#039;t the first time you&#039;ve bought a coin out from under me! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I&#039;ve been wanting one of these Pisidian Aurelians for a while.&nbsp; They&#039;re the latest reasonably obtainable Roman provincial coins (not counting the special case of Roman Egypt).&nbsp; Provincials exist for Tacitus too, but those are ridiculously rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully I managed to snag one in a group lot so I won&#039;t have pay you a visit with my kneecap cracker.&nbsp; Coincidentally mine has Artemis&#039;s bro on it:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like an obverse die match to yours too!</p><p><br /></p><p>I gather the standard view now is that Ephesian Artemis&#039;s, uh, thingies, are in fact bull testicles, derived from sacrifices to her.&nbsp; Apparently the originator of this idea actually reconstructed it with the real thing <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie105" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... and the resemblance was exact.&nbsp; (Some info here: <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/religion/artemis-of-ephesus/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/religion/artemis-of-ephesus/" rel="nofollow">https://www.livius.org/articles/religion/artemis-of-ephesus/</a> .)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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