I wrote an article for The Numismatist some years ago, titled "The Myth of Zeus Peloris" and published in the April 2013 issue.
Mark – Thanks so much for your comments and mention of
The Numismatist article!
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EDIT: OOPS, I mistakenly read "
The Celator" at first! That helps explain why I couldn't find it! I've just read the article and found the historical background on the
type's discovery and interpretation of the
legend fascinating.
I have a particular interest in Phalanna's coins, so I’m excited to read it. Phalanna gets
good coverage in
Rogers and
BCD, and its coins are often described along w/ the other cities of
Thessaly, but very few studies have focused specifically on Phalanna (and almost nothing else in English). The only other Phalanna-centric article that
comes to mind would be
Papaevangelou-Genakos 2004 (written in Greek!). (I actually have a draft research note I’ve worked on, off-and-on for a couple years, about the more common Phalanna AE
type w/ the “young male
head”;
Zeus Peloris plays a role in
his interpretation.)
I just added to my
gallery an example of the other
Zeus type w/ the nymph seated feeding stork (also ex-BCD, which he bought from
CNG EA 183 (5
Mar 2008), 54 [
LINK]), and an interesting banker's mark/countermark inside
Zeus' ear:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=183349Also: Always valuable to learn who else noticed one’s coins at
auction -- thanks for mentioning it! Now that we do so much of our
buying online, we may never learn who else encountered our coins first or what they thought of them. Any exception is very welcome! (Of course, once they’ve been purchased, we now have wonderful outlets like this one for discussing our
collections with the whole world.)