Savoca Coins
Online Auction 108 | Silver 31 Jul 2021
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Galatia. Pessinos after circa 20 BC.
Bronze Æ
18 mm, 3,87 g
Turreted head of Tyche right / ΜΗΤΡΟΣ ΘΕΩΝ, lion seated right.
very fine
SNG BN 2565–8; HGC 7, 769.
The bronze coinage with types referring to Kybele and Attis and the name of the Great Mother of Pessinous in Galatia (ΜΗΤΡΟΣ ΘΕΩΝ or ΜΗΤΡΟΣ ΘΕΩΝ ΠΕΣΣΙΝΕΑΣ) has been left aside in all discussions concerning coinages issued in the name of a god. Scholarly oppinion has related it to the theocratic state. It certainly derived from that theocratic state, but it can also be linked to commercial activities at this important religious center. (Selene Psoma, Panegyris Coinages, AJN 20, 2008, p. 232-233).
Bronze Æ
18 mm, 3,87 g
Turreted head of Tyche right / ΜΗΤΡΟΣ ΘΕΩΝ, lion seated right.
very fine
SNG BN 2565–8; HGC 7, 769.
The bronze coinage with types referring to Kybele and Attis and the name of the Great Mother of Pessinous in Galatia (ΜΗΤΡΟΣ ΘΕΩΝ or ΜΗΤΡΟΣ ΘΕΩΝ ΠΕΣΣΙΝΕΑΣ) has been left aside in all discussions concerning coinages issued in the name of a god. Scholarly oppinion has related it to the theocratic state. It certainly derived from that theocratic state, but it can also be linked to commercial activities at this important religious center. (Selene Psoma, Panegyris Coinages, AJN 20, 2008, p. 232-233).