Thank you for looking at this beautiful example of an ancient Roman bronze coin. It features great historical value. This is a great chance to own a piece of history, expand your collection, or give as a gift. This coin is guaranteed authentic for life.
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (southern Italy). The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order, dating from about 550 to 450 BC. It became the Roman city of Paestum in 273 BC in the aftermath of the Pyrrhic War, in which the Graeco-Italian Poseidonians sided with king Pyrrhus of Epirus against the Roman Republic. During the Carthaginian invasion of Italy by Hannibal, the city remained faithful to Rome and afterward, was granted special favours such as the minting of its own coinage. The city continued to prosper during the Roman imperial period and became a bishopric as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesto around 400 AD.
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Dionysos) is the god of the grape-harvest, wine making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. The Romans called him Bacchus for a frenzy he is said to induce called baccheia. As Dionysus Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.
Ancient Roman
Lucania, Paestum / Poseidonia
Circa 218-201 BC
AE Triens
Obverse: Female head (or Dionysos) right, wearing ivy-wreath; four dots behind
Reverse: ΠAIS to right of cornucopiae; four dots to left
Size: 12mm, 3.2 grams
Reference:
Crawford, Paestum 6/1; SNG ANS 737
Professional Numismatic Notes: Very Fine
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