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Herakles holding a lion skin?
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no...but folks are in the correct pantheon of gods...this guy is "winged, with torch and cornucopia" on this coin.
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Well, based on 'winged', I'll try Hermes/Mercury for $500, Alex!
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Eros. Perhaps on a Corduba, Spain semis with bust of Venus on the obverse?
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you got it exactly TIF! here's the obverse, it's the coin on the right...but another one with better centering (but a worse reverse) is on the right.  |
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Pretty cool! Another type to keep an eye out for. I don't have anything from Spain... Next, try this. I've photoshopped/blurred everything but the deity but there really wasn't much else to see. If it proves difficult I will post the whole obverse, not that it will help much. I chose this coin because I was unfamiliar with the deity. Not my coin.  |
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i would say apollo...but everyone knows apollo.....is that a thunderbolt he's throwing?
indra?
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Not Indra, but now I have to google Indra.
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And yes, it is a thunderbolt. But it's not the god who is usually associated with thunderbolts.
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hmmmmmm.....  uhhhh..  |
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Yep! Nice artistry on this coin. A Roman Republian from Pecunem:  Quote:
L. CAESIUS. Denarius (112-111 BC). Rome.
Weight: 3.8 g.
Diameter: 17 mm.
Obv: Youthful, draped bust of Vejovis left, seen from behind, hurling thunderbolt; monogram of Roma behind.
Rev: L CAESI.
Two Lares seated right, each holding a staff; dog between them, head of Vulcan and tongs above; monograms flanking.
Crawford 298/1. About Vejovis, from Princeton (read more by clicking link): Quote:
Romans believe that Vejovis is one of the first gods to be born. He is a god of healing, and became associated with the Greek Asclepius.[1] He is mostly worshipped in Rome and Bovillae in Latium. On the Capitoline Hill and on the Tiber Island, temples have been erected in his honor.[2] In spring, goats have been sacrificed to avert plagues.
Vejovis is portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows, pilum, (or lightning bolts) in his hand, and is accompanied by a goat. He may be based on the Etruscan god of vendetta[dubious â€" discuss], known to them by the name Vetis written on the Piacenza Liver, a bronze model used in haruspical divination. |
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