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A work made of bronze.

Coin Depicting a Griffin

300-30 BCE

Greek; minted in Teos, Ionia

Sigacik

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts a griffin, a mythological creature with the head and wings of an eagle and body of a lion, leaping to the right. The back (reverse) depicts a lyre, a stringed instrument like a small harp.

Bronze

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium