Ok, dann noch eine, ebenfalls sehr selten:
Moesia inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, Elagabal, AD 218-222
AE 27, 12.70g, 26.52mm, 225°
struck under governor Novius Rufus
obv. AVT KM AVR - ANTWNEINOC
Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from front, radiate, r.
rev. VP NOBIOV ROVFOV NIKOPOLITWN / PROC ISTR / ON
The youthful local mountain god Haimos, some drapery over hip, sitting on rock l., head turned r., reclining on tree,
hands above head; stag behind him jumping r., bear, coming out of cave below, r.
ref. a) AMNG I/1, 1953 (pl. III, 23, same rev. die)
b) Varbanov (engl.) 4028
c) Hristova/Jekov (2011) No. 8.26.43.2 (this coin)
Very rare, EF, some flan damage on obverse, the nicest reverse ever seen
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Haimos, a Thracian king, was married with Rhodope. Their love was so great that they called each another Zeus and Hera. For that blasphemia the real Zeus turned them into homonymous mountains. (Ovid, Met. VI, 87)
A similar myth is known from Keyx and Alcyone where they are turned into birds, Keyx into a diver and Alcyone into a kingfisher. (Ovid, Met. XI, 410)
Dr. Falter (München) suggests that the bear is drinking from a well. Hand over head is an attitude which stands for calmness or fatigue after strong effort.
Jochen
Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat.