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My Last Purchase: A Bronze Greek Coin Representing The Poetess Sappho

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Hello, I found recently this very rare and unusual coin from the island of Lesbos (350-280): a small bronze coin (12,9 mm, 1,86 gr) representing Sappho with hair in artful bind, and, on the reverse, a chelys and an eagle head. There are other coins allegedly representing the great poetess, but this portrait seems almost certainly of her (because of the reverse).
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Very nice!
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Nice coin. The reverse has the city name Mytilene with muscial instrument Lyre. The female head on Lesbos coins have been identified in reference books and auctions as Sappho or Persephone, a nymph or a muse. Sometimes in auctions the female head is described as Sappho with ? It seems uncertain. By the way, for those who don't know, the word Lesbian came from the island of Lesbos and Sappho's poetry describing female affection.

I have a few coins from Lesbos but mine have Apollo, Zeus.
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