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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Mysia| > |Cyzicus| > GB92132
Kyzikos, Mysia, c. 200 - 100 B.C.
|Cyzicus|, |Kyzikos,| |Mysia,| |c.| |200| |-| |100| |B.C.|, The torch is a symbol of Demeter. After Hades abducted Demeter's virgin daughter Persephone to be his wife, Demeter searched for her lighting her way through the earth with torches. While she searched, she was preoccupied with loss and grief. The seasons halted; living things ceased their growth, then began to die. Faced with the extinction of all life on earth, Zeus sent his messenger Hermes to the underworld to bring Persephone back. However, because she had eaten while in the underworld, Hades had a claim on her. Therefore, it was decreed that she would spend four months each year in the underworld. During these months Demeter grieves for her daughter's absence, withdrawing her gifts from the world, creating winter. Persephone's return brings the spring.
GB92132. Bronze AE 22, SNG BnF 490 var.; SNG Cop 82 var.; SNG Tübingen 2265 var.; SNGvA 1241 var.; BMC Mysia p. 39, 161 (none with this control monogram), VF, green patina, scattered porosity, edge splits, beveled obverse edge, central depressions, Kyzikos (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) mint, weight 5.767g, maximum diameter 22.3mm, die axis 0o, c. 200 - 100 B.C.; obverse bull butting right on exergue line; reverse flaming torch, KYZI/KHNΩN in two flanking downward lines starting on the right, monogram (control) lower right; ex Ancient Imports (Marc Breitsprecher); SOLD




  






REFERENCES|

Molinari, N.J. & N. Sisci. Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios. A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, With Essays on Origin and Identity. (Oxford, 2016).

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