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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3216662, member: 84744&quot;]Spectacular reverse on that coin!!&nbsp; Really beautiful style, I love it.&nbsp; I was also interested to read that the Cleveland Museum thinks their sculpture is in fact a Pythian Apollo, busy destroying a malformed python symbolizing disorder.&nbsp; It may be that the Sauroktonos thing was all a mistake!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a mini-collection of the Farnese Hercules:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]836521[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other work of art that comes to mind is the painting of Aurora on the reverse of this Plautius Plancus denarius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]836522[/ATTACH] </p><p>The painting, by 4th century BC artist Nikomachos of Thebes, was apparently looted from Greece, and when this coin was issued in 47 BCE it was owned by the moneyer.&nbsp; He was proscribed and executed by Antony and Octavian in 43, and the painting was dedicated to the Capitol by his brother L. Munatius Plancus at his Gallic Triumph that year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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