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CoinEntry/Object ID
2013.019.0019Description
Six coins framed on blue felt, no glass, brown plastic frame; descriptions on back:
A. "This coin pictures the God Mercury wearing a broad brimmed, low crown type has and reverse pictures a standing goat and the Olypian torch. Coin was sruck at Aenus on the southern coast of Thrace in 466 B.C."
B. "This coin was struck in the year 323 B.C. the year of the death of Alexander the Great. The reverse is a likeness of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom. Coin is a tetradrachm and the obverse is the likeness of Alexander the Great with the Horns of Aries. It was the first coin to bear the likeness of a human."
C. "The wrestlers shown on the face of this coin represent Castor and Pollux the twin sons of Zeus. They were two of the Argonauts from the famed ship Argo which sailed the forbidden seas of the ancient Greek gods and were known as the Gemini twins of classical mythology."
D. "This coin is used, in an astrological way, to depict Sagittarius the Archer. Face is the bust of Antininus Pius and the reverse depicts the constellation, known as Sagittarius or the centaur Chiron whom Hercules killed in battle."
E. "This coin depicts a story...in classical mythology the crab pinched Hercules' foot when he was fighting the Hydra or water monster. The crab was crushed but the God Juno later placed it in the skies."
F. "Silver Stater of Corinth. This coin illustrates the famous winged horse of clasical mythology, Pegasus. The coin circulated as a trade coin from 330 B.C. until the days of the Apolstle Paul. Coin represented a day's wages for a Corinthian worker."Collection
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