Coin Depicting Bust of Dionysos
3rd century CE
Greek, minted in Perinthos, Thrace (now Turkey)
Ancient Greece
The front (obverse) of this coin depicts a bust of young Dionysos facing right, and wearing an ivy-wreath. On the back (reverse) is a lyre, a stringed instrument like a small harp.
6mm, Autonomous issue; 3rd Cent. AD. no legend, head of youthful Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy or vine leaves / (from top right) ΠEΡINΘIΩN, lyre with four strings. BMC 7.
Bronze