Dear cf,
A truly special
reverse, that was more popular is
Trajan times.
18 years after
Trajan his reign it popes up on only this
Drachm under
HadrianBest,
EricEGYPT,
Alexandria.
Hadrian Drachm 134-35 AD Poseidon in
hippocamp bigaReference.
RPC 6020 (this coin illustrated).
Dattari-Savio Pl. 89, 7759 (this coin);
Emmett 1023 (
triton biga)
Issue L ƐΝΝƐΑΚ·Δ or L ΙΘ = year 19
Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙС ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС СƐΒ
Laureate draped and
cuirassed bust of
Hadrian, r., seen from rear
Rev. L ƐΝΝƐΑΚ·Δ
Poseidon in
hippocamp biga, r.raising hand and holding trident
23.35 gr
32 mm
Notes
From the
Dattari collection.
Poseidon was the Olympian god of the ocean, earthquakes and horses.
His father
Kronos swallowed him whole when he was born, later
Zeus with the
help of Metis managed to set him free. During the Titanomachy, the Cyclopes forged a unique trident for Poseidon, and together with
his brothers they defeated the Titans and threw them into the Tartaros. The god is well known for
his famous attributes such as the Trident, sometimes he also used to carry around a rock with sea creatures on it, and he is pictured on
pottery with a
wreath of celery leaves.
His sacred
animals are the
dolphin, the
bull and the horses. However he is also associated with
animals such as the hippocampus, in fact,
his chariot was driven by seahorses.
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