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Description: | Obv: Head of Alexander, looking right, diademed, with flying hair; beneath chin, symbol P/E in intaglio.
Rev: Bacchus, naked to the waist, seated right, but with head left, in biga drawn by panthers, left; he holds thyrsus in his right hand and raises his left above his head; in field, right, small winged creature flying left, carrying a bunch of grapes; above backs of panthers, Maenad left, blowing double flute; in front of her, naked satyr standing to front, head right, with a pedum in right hand; at panthers' heads, horned Pan standing right, holding reins; in exergue, six Bacchic symbols, in following order from left to right; fistula, pedum, mask right (with winged temples?), bunch of grapes, mask of Silenus left, cup with two handles. ISSU UNCERTAIN Rome Italy Die axis: 180
Alexander appears only on Roman Contorniates, not on Roman coins. head closely imitated fromone of the best known of the obverses used for the festival coins struck in Macedonia in the first half of the 3rd century A.D. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MEDAL? : COUNTER? : BACCHUS : FLUTE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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