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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4598481, member: 99456&quot;][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] - an interesting rare mystery coin.&nbsp; What are the boxes or archways around your goddesses on the reverse? aediculae?</p><p><br /></p><p>Being an RR guy - this is this first coin that came to mind, &quot;triple-bodied image of Diana Nemorensis in front of a cypress grove&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138837[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My best guess is &quot;Aphroditai Kastnietides&quot; as seen on <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3390" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3390" rel="nofollow">RPC 3390</a> and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/6279" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/6279" rel="nofollow">RPC 6279</a><img src="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/rev/313661" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/rev/253972/high/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Searching RPC for &quot;<b>Aphroditai Kastnietides</b>&quot;, these all seem to come from one city:</p><p><b>City:</b> Aspendus (ΑϹΠƐΝΔΙΩΝ)&nbsp; <b> Region:</b> Pamphylia <b>Province: </b>Lycia-Pamphylia</p><p><br /></p><p>And here are some other speculative, poorly supported to completely unsupported ideas</p><ul> <li>The reverse shows Osirus and Isis of Canopus as with <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4884366" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4884366" rel="nofollow">this coin</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/4825/4884366.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <br /> </li> <li>The reverse shows two female figures as attendants to support Faustina II in the afterlife.&nbsp; Faustina died in Halala, in southern Capadoccia, in the winter of AD 175.&nbsp; She was on campaign with Marcus Aurelius.&nbsp; A Roman coin that suggest something like this, a medallic sestertius <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4452688" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4452688" rel="nofollow">here</a><br /> <img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/79/4438/4452688.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <br /> </li> <li>Core and Artemis of Ephesus as with <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=766525" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=766525" rel="nofollow">this coin,</a> or <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5576479" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5576479" rel="nofollow">this coin</a>, this seems unlikely as Core and Artemis don&#039;t look at all alike <br /> <img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/88/1011/766525.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/93/5474/5576479.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></li> <li>Apollo and Artemis cult statues - like the <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2695" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2695" rel="nofollow">RPC example</a> from [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] - Apollo doesn&#039;t look like Artemis - here&#039;s <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=277912" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=277912" rel="nofollow">another example</a>.<br /> <img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/460/277912.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <br /> </li> <li>Artemis and Marnas a provincial expression of this <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1685584" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1685584" rel="nofollow">this coin</a> of Faustina and Lucilla - also seems unlikely to me<br /> <img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/20/1772/1685584.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <br /> </li> <li>The reverse show Artemis with Faustina deified, although no evidence or coin to support such a possibility.<br /> </li> <li>The reverse shows deified Faustina I and Faustina II as a cult of two Faustina&#039;s was encouraged by Marcus Aurelius (no evidence or coin to offer here), an interesting article from Mattingly (1948) <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1508088" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1508088" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</li> </ul><p>Any way you look at it an interesting and mysterious coin!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Addendum</b>: an article with info on the class of &quot;<i>chained goddesses</i>&quot; who are &quot;<i>found by the score in the western and southern parts of Asia Minor</i>&quot; : <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/311016" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/311016" rel="nofollow">Merkelbach, R. (1978)</a>. The Girl in the Rosebush: A Turkish Tale and Its Roots in Ancient Ritual. <i>Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,</i> <i>82</i>, 1-15[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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