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A work made of silver.

Hemidrachm (Coin) Depicting Poseidon

3rd century BCE

Greek, minted in Kroton/Bruttium, Italy

Italy

The front of this coin depicts the god Poseiden.

On the back, a human figure rides a hippocamp, a mythological creature with the body of a horse and a fish's tail.

Silver

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium