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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 25591565, member: 87809&quot;]I was researching this coin and found this article about The Last Roman Colonies Elevated under Philip I: Numismatic Perspective at </p><p><a href="https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/ozean/article/view/5054/5139" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/ozean/article/view/5054/5139" rel="nofollow">https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/ozean/article/view/5054/5139</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The author says that the mintmark of Damascus was a ram’s head or a leaping ram, so I&#039;m wondering why is there a leaping ram on a coin of Antioch on the Orontes. Was a ram used to represent something else?</p><p><br /></p><p>Decassarion</p><p>Antiochia ad Orontem 247 – 249 AD, 2nd issue</p><p>27 x 29 mm, 15.100 g, 1h</p><p>RPC VIII (Unassigned number) ID 7515; McAlee 980; CRS 498a; SNG Copenhagen 272; McClean 9407; BMC Galatia, 528; SGI 3959</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹЄΒ laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I to right</p><p>Rev.: ΑΝΤΙΟΧƐΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟ ΚΟΛΩN turreted, draped and veiled bust of Tyche of Antiochia to r.; above, ram leaping right; star below Tyche. Δ-Є across upper fields, S-C across lower fields.</p><p>The coin is much darker, I used more light to see better the details</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1638303[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1638304[/ATTACH]</p><p>Please share anything you deem relevant<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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