ATTICA, Athens. Circa 340-335 BC. Æ (15mm, 3.38 g, 12h). Eleusis mint. VF.

Electronic Auction 590
Lot: 124.
Closing Date: Jul 2 2025 10:00 ET

Greek, 12h, Bronze

Estimate: $ 100

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 340-335 BC. Æ (15mm, 3.38 g, 12h). Eleusis mint. Triptolemos, holding grain ear, seated right in winged chariot being drawn by two serpents / Pig standing right on mystic staff; ΔI below head. Kroll 38q var. (Triptolemos left, Δ on rev.); cf. Svoronos, Monnaies pl. 103, 16 (control mark uncertain); HGC 4, 1766 corr. (ΔI, not Δ; this coin illustrated). Dark green-brown patina, slightly off center. VF.

From the Kelly Ramage Collection. Ex Christopher Morcom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 173, 26 September 2007), lot 162.

The obverse is inspired by a statue of Triptolemos that was presumably still in its temple when Pausanias (I. 38, 6) visited Eleusis in about AD 160: “The Eleusians have a temple to Triptolemos... They say that the plain called Rharion was the first to be sown and the first to grow crops... Here is shown a threshing floor and altar. My dream forbade the description of the things within the wall of the sanctuary, and the uninitiated are of course not permitted to learn that which they are prevented from seeing.”

Closing Date and Time: 2 July 2025 at 10:41:00 ET.

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