Art Institute of Chicago

Didrachm (Coin) Depicting the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux)

Roman, possibly minted in Rome

Date

225-214 BCE, issued by the Roman Republic

Medium

Silver

Culture

Capua

Department

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

The front of this coin depicts a Janiform head of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), wearing crowns of laurels and surrounded by a decorative border of dots. On the back the god Jupiter wields a thunderbolt while riding in a four horse chariot, called a quadriga, which is driven by the figure of Victory. Beneath them, ROMA is inscribed in a rectangle.

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