Coin Depicting Bust of Dionysos

Art Institute of Chicago

Coin Depicting Bust of Dionysos

Greek, minted in Perinthos, Thrace (now Turkey)

Date
3rd century CE
Medium
Bronze
Culture
Ancient Greece
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts a bust of young Dionysos facing right, and wearing an ivy-wreath. On the back (reverse) is a lyre, a stringed instrument like a small harp. 6mm, Autonomous issue; 3rd Cent. AD. no legend, head of youthful Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy or vine leaves / (from top right) ΠEΡINΘIΩN, lyre with four strings. BMC 7.

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Object type
AAT300037334

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