Scorpions and Lions

A mid sixth-century B.C.E. coin from Mylasa (south-western coast of the Anatolian peninsula) depicting a lion’s head on one side and a scorpion on the other. Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=303241">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.A coin from Laodicea ad Mare, modern Latakia in Syria, (ca. 45 B.C.E.) depicting a lion attacking a bull on one side and a scorpion on the other side. Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=287738">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.A silver drachma from southern Gaul (late third to early second century B.C.E.) depicting a lion with a scorpion head. Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=269075">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.