What is distracting me for sleuthing out the cult of Apollo pre Ludi Apollinares this Monday morning, you ask?! Well I did start with good faith in on the Italian scholarship, but then swerved rapidly when I saw an intriguing engraving, related to one of the individuals names in an inscription. These things happen. And, so I fell into:
Guillaume Rouillé (text), Georges Reverdy (images), Prima pars Promptuarii iconum insigniorum à seculo hominum, subiectis eorum vitis, per compendium ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis. (full text; wikipedia entry on history of book)
While the book itself admits to some of the images being fantasies, the images also reveal a deep knowledge of numismatics.
You and I know that that isn’t the minotaur but rather a Man-faced bull with a barley grain above from an ancient coins that has been adapted by the authors and illustrator for their rationalizing retelling of the Theseus narrative.
Lavinia here has a hair style borrowed from either the Artemis of Massalia or more likely Flaccus’ Victoria (RRC 365) which also borrows from the same, or another derivative like RRC 455/3 or RRC 407/2. And that Latinus and Amata owes something to the Numa Ancus coinages of Censorinius (RRC 346), esp. to my eye the bronzes.
RRC 407/2 is certainly the inspiration for his Hersillia Sabina
The lituus among other things makes Ancus’ relationship to RRC 425/1 indisputable. And I cannot but help see some of the Republican Apollo heads with ringlets in the Tullius Hostilius.
I’m particularly in love with the use of the Mars club series here (RRC 27/1)
Clearly influenced by RRC 434/1
And this is taken from RRC 459/1:
There are more echoes of specific coins of Caesar and Juba and more, but I started to get bored, and am restricting my clippings to those that amuse me. Like the use of RRC 453/1 ‘s Medusa as a pseudo portrait; this feels a very knowingly amusing misappropriation.
Similarly the use of Sospita from a coin of Thorius to created a Taurus portrait (cf. RRC 316/1). This by the way was the image I saw and wanted to follow up on it’s source that cost me the last hour or so. But I had so much fun I have no regrets! Back to Apollo.
Others are vaguely numismatic but hard to pin to an exact type.
Thales derives from a Hercules wrestler type.
As does this Ptolemy!
Daniel from a Rhodian Helios Apollo type.
So also Rodope where the name itself makes a joke on the the prototype
Perhaps Aeneus has something of this Brutus about him
So many veiled goddess candidates from the coins for Cresa.
Some Apollo for Artaxerces
A new style Athenian tetradrachm for Alexander. Which is hilarious given Alexander tetradrachms could have been used again I feel there is deep humor in this book’s engagment with coins and the rejection of obvious prototypes for more playful ones. Cf. the Ptolemy Lagos as Hercules above.
Mithridates morphs into Antigonous and and Demetrius becomes a wide eyed Ptolemy. These seem surely designed to amuse the intelligent coin collector of the day.
And here Alexander become Lysimachus and a pegasi Athena becomes Antigonus
Does Phyrrus come from a later Antigonid? Alexander of Epirus gets upgraded to the coinage of the III!
Mithridates becomes a youthful Apollo such as we see on numerous intaglios
Clodius becomes Apollo
Finally I WISH this CORVINUS coin existed!
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
Just reminded me to follow up. The Athenian New Style saw in stray finds of Hypaepa was on the names precisely these: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/3809/tetradrachm-of-athens-with-head-of-athena-struck-under-xeno;jsessionid=D4FC88ADF8431D5A0AA56FF7ABF310CE