Fine Coins Showcase
Antiquities Showcase
Show Empty Categories
Shop Search
Shopping Cart
My FORVM
Contact Us
About Forum
Shopping at Forum
Our Guarantee
Payment Options
Shipping Options & Fees
Privacy & Security
Forum Staff
Selling Your Coins
Identifying Your Coin
FAQs
zoom.asp
Kyzikos, Mysia, c. 390 - 330 B.C.
Beautiful Persephone lived a peaceful life far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. She was innocently picking flowers when Hades, god of the Underworld, burst through a cleft in the earth and abducted her. While Demeter searched desperately for her daughter she neglected the earth and caused nothing to grow. Zeus, pressed by the cries of hungry people, determined to force Hades to return Persephone. However, Hades had tricked Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds, and because anyone who consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there, she is forced return to the underworld for a period each year. Explaining the seasons, when Demeter and her daughter are reunited, the Earth flourishes with vegetation and color, but for the months each year when Persephone returns to the underworld, the earth becomes barren.GS16370. Silver drachm, SNG Ashmolean 548?; BMC Mysia p. 36, 124; SNG BnF 410 var. (control); SNG Cop 55 var. (same); SNGvA 1223 var. (same); SNG Tanrikulu -, VF, Kyzikos (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) mint, weight 3.078g, maximum diameter 14.8mm, die axis 0o, c. 390 - 330 B.C.; obverse ΣΩTEIPA, head of Kore-Persephone left, wearing earring, necklace and wreath of grain, hair in sphendone and covered with veil; reverse KY-HI, lion's head left, filleted bucranium (control symbol) behind, tunny fish left below; SOLD
Page created in 0.532 seconds.
