Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

and the trident of Poseidon 797

the latter. Thus silver coins of Troizen, struck c. 400—322 B.C.,
duplicate the trident-head so that it looks much like a thunderbolt

Fig. 766.

(fig. 758)1- The duplication was, however, presumably intended in
primis to show that the coins were diobols. Certain rare coppers of

1 Brit. Mas. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. i66pl. 30, 21 (=my fig. 758) and 22, Head
Hist, num.- p. 443.