KOINON IV, 2021

Contents

Sharing the Luck: An Introduction to KOINON IV with Recourse to Hermes– NICHOLAS MOLINARI ;

GREEK COINAGE ;
Sophytes’ Helmet: Origin, Symbolism, and Apotheosis – LLOYD W. H. TAYLOR ;
Respect for Seleukid Suzerainty: The Imitative Victory Coinage of the Sistan Ariaspi – LLOYD W. H. TAYLOR ;
The Alexander Decadrachms of Babylon – LLOYD W. H. TAYLOR ;

JUDAEAN COINAGE ;
Concerning the Aquatic-Bovine Dimension to YHWH Worship and Its Relation to the Double Cornucopia on Jewish Coinage – NICHOLAS MOLINARI ;

ROMAN COINAGE ;
A Silenus Mask and Other Cult Symbols on Hadrian’s Alexandrian Dichalkoi – TYLER HOLMAN ;
An Unpublished ‘Medallion’ of Elagabalus from Edessa in Osrhoene: Nergal and Syro-Mesopotamian Religious Continuity? – EDWARD DANDROW ;
Constantine’s SOLI INVICTO COMITI Coinage: Theme and Variations – GAVIN T. RICHARDSON ;
Decorated Busts of the Antonines: New Bust Variants of Denarii from AD 138 to AD 188 (Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Commodus, Faustina II, Lucilla) – ZHENYA MARINKEVICH ;
Tacitus: An Emperor and his Aegis – ANDREI BONTAS ;

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN COINAGE ;
Numismatic Typeforms of the Numerals Zero through Ten in Medieval Europe: A Classification System – DAVID B. SPENCINER ;
A Possible Pedigree and other Notes on a 14th Century Blanc Tournois – ANDREI BONTAS ;

A CATALOGUE OF NEW VARIETIES

About the Author

Nicholas J. Molinari, PhD, is an academic librarian and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy. His interests are classical numismatics, ancient philosophy, and ancient religion, and in particular the Greek deity Acheloios and his foreign counterparts. He is the co-author, with Dr. Nicola Sisci, of Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios. A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016). He is currently preparing a new book that demonstrates the influence of Acheloios on Thales of Miletos, which was the subject of his doctoral dissertation.