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Monumentum

Gold coin with Mithras and Mao

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

The New Mithraeum

20 Dec 2024

Updated on May 2026

Gold coin. Gardner, 141 No. 41 and PI. XXVII, 24; MMM 186 No. lc with fig. 3; Leipoldt, fig. 4. See fig. lc. Obv.: Bust of Hooerkes. Rev.: Standing bearded god with a crescent behind his shoulders. Facing him a standing god with nimbus and radiate crown, holding a sceptre in his l.h. and stretching his r.h. out towards the lunar god. Behind the former god MAO, behind the latter MIIPO, between them a character. Rim of pearls.

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