Silver Tetradrachm of Gela

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by Gina Pardo
published on 19 December 2017

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Silver Tetradrachm of Gela — Equivalent to four drachmae, this coin is perhaps the most beautiful issued by the Gela mint, made by an unidentified engraver named as the "Master of Sosipolis" (440 BCE).
The characteristic of this tetradrachm is the presence of a female figure who crowns the anthropomorphic bull (which represents the namesake river god of the city).
The name "Sosipolis" is an epithet of a male deity or as a person's name. "Sosipolis" in Greek meant "saviour of the city". (Pencil drawing by Gina Pardo)

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Original image by Gina Pardo. Uploaded by Salvatore Piccolo, published on 19 December 2017 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Pardo, G. (2017, December 19). Silver Tetradrachm of Gela. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/7777/

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