Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.

Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.

£90.00
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Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.
  • Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.
  • Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.
  • Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.
  • Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.
Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.

Kardia-Thrace AE21 Persephone/Lion Sears 1598.

£90.00
    • Field Details
      Region / City Thrace, Kardia (Cardia)
      Date Circa 350 – 309 BC
      Denomination AE21 (Bronze)
      Weight / Size 7.31 grams / 21 mm
      Reference Sear SG 1598; SNG Copenhagen 862; BMC 3
      Obverse Wreathed head of Persephone (or Demeter) facing left, wearing earrings and a necklace; hair rolled and wreathed with grain ears.
      Reverse KAPΔIA (KARDIA) above a lion standing or prowling left; lion is breaking a spear in its mouth.
      Exergue Barley grain (kernel) below the lion's feet.
      Notes Kardia was a colony of Miletus and the birthplace of Eumenes. The city was destroyed in 309 BC by Lysimachus.

      T & T auctions. The Jennifer collection

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