Ancient Greek coin minted in Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia - Dionysos & Thyrsos Lot

Ancient Greek coin minted in Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia - Dionysos & Thyrsos LotSeleukis and Pieria Apameia Size: 20mm Weight: 10. 2 grams Obverse: Head of Dionysos right wearing ivy wreath Reverse: AAPAMEWN THS IERAS () Filleted thyrsos. In Greek mythology a thyrsus (thyrsos) was a staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves sometimes wound with taeniae and always topped with a pine cone. These staffs were carried by Dionysus and his followers. Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos

Reverse: Eagle standing right with wreath in its beak palm behind

Obverse: EMMANOVH Nimbate bust of Christ facing holding book of the Gospels IC to left XC to right

Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG emperor and empress standing confronted clasping hands pellet in wreath above

Autonomous Issue - well struck coin with desert patina

quite possibly

Obverse: IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TRP COS V P P laureate head right drapery on far shoulder

Antiochus VIII

Reverse: PETRA above CLON below founder plowing right with two oxen

Reverse: ORIENS AVG Sol standing right holding globe and raising hand

Reverse: Owl standing right single prong tail olive branch and crescent above right bankers mark in right field and countermark

Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGGG Concordia turreted seated facing holding reversed spear and resting left hand on knee right foot on prow

by staurogram and globus cruciger star in right field CONOB in exergue