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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Gods, Non-Olympian| ▸ |Hades or Pluto||View Options:   | | | Hades to the Greeks, Pluto to the Romans, was the god of the dead and the underworld. A fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, the ancients were reticent to swear oaths in his name, averted their faces when sacrificing to him, and rarely depicted him on coins or in art. The Secular Games, festivals held in his honor, were held in Rome every 100 years. |
The type as described in GRPC Lydia, etc., does not name a magistrate on the reverse. Based on the plates, however, the inscriptions are obscure; they may also name Simon. Perhaps our coin is the same type just on an larger flan. It is either unpublished and the only specimen known to FORVM, or the only specimen of the extremely rare published type with clear inscriptions. There have been zero sales of this type on Coin Archives in the last two decades.GB115029. Bronze AE 12, cf. GRPC Lydia III pl. 198, 32 (0.7g, 8mm, no magistrate named); Nysa Regling 24 (same); SNG München 23, 357 (same); RPC Online I -, gF, well centered on a broad flan, weight 1.353 g, maximum diameter 11.7 mm, die axis 180o, Nysa (near Sultanhisar, Turkey) mint, c. 100 - 30 B.C.; obverse bearded and laureate head of Hades right, anepigraphic; reverse poppy head on stalk, ear of barley below right, diagonal to right, NYΣAE-ΩN clockwise from above, ΣIMΩN (Simon [magistrate) downward on left end curving counterclockwise; from Shawn Caza, former diplomat, author of A Handbook of Late Roman Coins (Spink, 2021), collection assembled during postings and international travel; ex Dorotheum (Vienna, Austria);; unique or extremely rare; $160.00 (€150.40)
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