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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Other Lydia| > RP86875
Nero, 13 October 54 - 9 June 68 A.D., Nysa, Lydia
|Other| |Lydia|, |Nero,| |13| |October| |54| |-| |9| |June| |68| |A.D.,| |Nysa,| |Lydia|, Diomedianos, named in the reverse legend, was a priest, probably of Pluto and Kore, and a magistrate, probably a grammateus. The celebrated Plutonion, a temple of Pluto and Kore, and the cave Charonion, were located on the territory of Nysa at Acharaka. Kore (Persephone) was innocently picking flowers when Pluto (Hades), god of the Underworld, burst through a cleft in the earth and abducted her. While Ceres (Demeter) searched desperately for her daughter she neglected the earth and caused nothing to grow. Jupiter (Zeus), pressed by the cries of hungry people, determined to force Pluto to return Kore. However, Pluto had tricked Kore 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 Ceres and her daughter are reunited, the Earth flourishes with vegetation and color, but for the months each year when Kore returns to the underworld, the earth becomes barren.
RP86875. Bronze AE 19, GRPC Lydia III pl. 200, 65; RPC I 2668 (4 spec.); Regling Nysa 60; SNG Cop -; SNGvA -; BMC Lydia -, aF, dark patina, types clear but legends off flan/obscure, Lydia, Nysa (near Sultanhisar, Turkey) mint, weight 6.166g, maximum diameter 19.3mm, die axis 0o, magistrate/priest Diomedianos, Oct 54 - Jun 68; obverse NEPΩN KAIΣAP, bare head right; reverse NYΣAEΩN ΔIOMHΔIANOΣ, Pluto (Hades) standing in galloping quadriga right, abducting Kore (Persephone) held in his right arm; extremely rare - missing from most major collections, Coin Archives records only one example sold at auction in the last two decades; SOLD



  






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