Ancient Coins: The Gods on Coinage

The Graeco-Roman Pantheon is a fascinating assembly of gods and semi-divine being that encompass and incarnate all aspects of the human experience taken to the extreme.

On a mostly illiterate society, they were the ideal tools to pass certain messages through what each god represented, and were masterfully adapted to coinage as a way of state propaganda.

Today, we´re going on a numismatic tour of the Olympus, having a peek at some Roman and Greek coins featuring the Gods!

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[ryan]

Really well made videos.. I'm 23, and wondering if this could be my lifetime hobby... I love Greek and Roman history.

[mattl]

This excellent video and others inspired me to look more closely at divinities on Greek coins- and now I'm the happy owner of two of those shown: the Poseidon, and the Athena/ Hippocampus, and I just love them. I also got a beautiful Tanit. I only wish these were available in silver as well!

[ABACUStoPC]

Gods..legends..kings, these elements made ancients coin so fascinating

[tavuzzipust]

I'd love to have a Roman Imperial coin with the Magna Mater, Cybele.

[limaechonumismatics]

I’ve been thinking about building a type set of Greek gods. I think they’re so interesting!

[johnpalacios]

Very interesting and well made video. I never knew Athena's helmet was raised like that. I have some of these coins. I recently bought the Poseidon coin in mint state.

[tanishjain]

I love your vids about Roman and Greek coinages, might i suggest that you come a bit east too? you know, chinese coins, India's gupta, maurya, gandhara, cholas, Western Kshatraps, Kushans; Thai etc.

[markp]

The Diocletian is a pretty cool error coin, looks like the die was filled with debris in a few letters.

[druzhynets]

Regarding deities, I'd like to collect all of them. My favorite ones currently are Jupiter with legend IOVI STATORI and Diana (DIANA LVCIFERA)

[ericcasagrande]

You know it's funny how people put in a bid, and then someone comes in and bids, bids, bids, and bids, until he finds out he or she is just 1 Euro from passing the lead bidder and they magically decide to stop bidding. Just like at E-bay. (LOL)

[druzhynets]

Actually, it's not Mars that was depicted on the Gordian's coin. It was Virtus - the deity of bravery and military strength, the personification of the Roman virtue of virtus (manliness). Mars is depicted on other coins, with legend MARTI PACIFERO and MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM and similar.

[LannisterFromDaRock]

Where is Sol? You better start praising the sun!!! :D