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LM41328

Corinth, Silver Stater, 345-307 BC.

Regular price £1,300
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Corinth, silver Stater, c. 345-307 BC, Pegasus flying left, koppa below, rev. head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet with laurel, AP below, chimera left, behind, 8.53g, 9h (Calciati, Pegasi 428). Old-collection tone, extremely fine.

With the help of Pegasus, the great Corinthian hero Bellerophon slew the monstrous, fire breathing Chimera. Even a casual glance at ancient depictions of this myth on ceramics and mosaics will immediately remind numismatists of St George slaying the Dragon. A hero on horseback defeats a monster below. It's a scene with its roots in the ancient world, popular in medieval art, and which has survived to this day in coinage as Pistrucci's reverse type for the sovereign. A 5th century BC drachm of Tarsos, Cilicia, may have been the first coin to use the image.

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