Showing posts with label coins monarchs hellenistic monarchs crowns wreaths stephanos portraits. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Coins NOT Crowns

#coins #ancient coins #crowns #wreaths #coinage #hellenistic monarchs
In several countries with monarchs rulers are often shown on coins wearing crowns.
However Hellenistic monarchs are more likely to be shown wearing a stephanos or wreath or a hat !

Here are some examples:

Queen Arsinoe 1 wearing a diadem or a modified polos perhaps



A Macedonian monarch wearing a headband 




note the headbands or wreaths

finally the one image I found showing something like a crown


however the spikes on this probably represent the rays of the sun

Crowns as we know them developed later