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Stater: Head of Nymph (Obverse); Nike (Reverse)

c. 420–400 BCE
(South Italy)
silver
Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.)
Weight: 7.646 g (0.27 oz.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1916.982
Location: not on view
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Nike sits on a cippus, a pillar used as a boundary stone or grave marker.

Description

Coins from the South Italian colony of Terina are notable for their sophisticated reworkings of other cities’ designs. On the obverse of this tetradrachm is a female head with short, wavy hair, possibly modeled on the Syracusan nymph Arethousa. The reverse captures an intimate moment as Nike sits, tenderly holding a bird, much like young women in Athenian funerary sculptures.
Stater: Head of Nymph (Obverse); Nike (Reverse)

Stater: Head of Nymph (Obverse); Nike (Reverse)

c. 420–400 BCE

Greek, minted at Terina (South Italy)

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