Crete, City of Cydonia, AR Diobol, Dionysus (God of Wine) - c. 180 BCE - Greek World

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Crete, Cydonia
• Authority: City of Cydonia
• Date: c. 180 BCE
• Denomination: AR (silver) diobol
• Size: 14mm, 1.58g
• Obverse: Head of young Dionysus or nymph left, long hair rolled around face and in loose chignon behind, loose locks falling down back of neck
• Reverse: Raised linear square in which raised lines forming 'skew' pattern
• Notes: Dionysus was the Greek god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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