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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GI18198
Orra, Calabria, Italy, c. 210 - 150 B.C.
|Italy|, |Orra,| |Calabria,| |Italy,| |c.| |210| |-| |150| |B.C.|, After Apollo insulted him, Eros (cupid) shot Apollo with an arrow that caused him to fall in hopeless love with Daphne, a mortal woman. Eros shot Daphne with an arrow which made her incapable of loving Apollo. Nevertheless Apollo pursued her, and out of desperation Daphne escaped by having herself turned into a laurel. Ever after, winners of the games to honor Apollo wore wreaths of laurel in honor of Apollo's Daphne.
GI18198. Bronze quincunx, SNG ANS 820; BMC Italy p. 158, 6-7; SNG Cop 760-762; SNG Morcom 253; Laffaille 34, F/VF, weight 5.495g, maximum diameter 17.3mm, die axis 45o, obverse laureate bust of Aphrodite right, scepter over shoulder; reverse ORRA, Eros walking right playing kithara (lyre), five pellets left; SOLD











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