Coin Depicting the Goddess Athena

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

345-317 BCE

Greek; minted in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts the head of goddess Athena, facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet (no crest); a snakey lock of hair falls behind. The back (reverse) depicts two dolphins arched inwards, nose to nose; between them sits an 8-rayed star with center pellet, tips attached with curved lines.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Coin Depicting the Goddess Athena
Place: Syracuse (Minted in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Struck 345 BCE–317 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Obverse: [ΣΥ]ΡΑ
Dimensions: Diam.: 2.9 cm (1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1940.8
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Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871- 1964), Paris, London, and Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1940.

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