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Obolos 16

11 October 2020
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Starting Price: 150 CHF
Hammer Price:  700 CHF
Lot 341

CORINTHIA. Corinth. Circa 375-300 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 8.45 g, 6 h). Q Pegasus with straight wing flying to left. Rev. Head of Aphrodite to left, wearing Corinthian helmet with a neck flap; below chin, Γ; behind neck, thyrsos. BCD Corinth 109. Calciati 416. Lightly toned, clear and attractive. Good very fine.

From the Vineyard Collection, ex Numismatica Ars Classica I, 19 May 1999, 1261.

The thyrsos was a staff or wand made from giant fennel and topped with a pine cone, and was usually tied with a fillet. It symbolized fertility and hedonism and was carried by the followers of Dionysos/Bacchus. Ovid mentions that the god himself carried a thyrsos that contained an iron point bound within it's leaves and that the point would incite madness.

Online bidding closes: 11 Oct 2020, 16:50:30 CEST Current Date & Time: 23 Apr 2024, 17:01:27 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:700 CHF by LINGOES (11 bids)
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