LESBOS Mytilene 454-427 BC EL Electrum Hecte Dionysus NGC Ancient Greek Coin D86

Description: Greek Coin of LESBOS - Mytilene EL (Electrum, an alloy of Gold and Silver) Sixth-stater or Hecte (10mm, 2.57 gm, 10h) Minted at Lesbos, Mytilene - circa. 454-427 BC Reference: Bodenstedt 50. Certified: NGC VF 8209101-009 Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5 Obverse: Wreathed head of Dionysus facing right. Reverse: Two calf heads confronting each other, palmette between; all within incuse square. Coin Notes: Minted before or during the beginning of the Peloponnesian War See the Genuine History Collection Lesbos, an ancient Greek island in the Aegean Sea, was renowned for its cultural contributions. Mytilene, its principal city, was a significant economic and cultural center during this period.Lesbos had a rich cultural background, being home to poets like Sappho and Alcaeus. Coins from this region can carry cultural significance tied to these figures or other aspects of the island's heritage. Island of Lesbos In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus (/ˈbækəs/ or /ˈbɑːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Βάκχος Bacchos) by the Greeks (a name later adopted by the Romans) for a frenzy he is said to induce called baccheia. As Dionysus Eleutherius ("the liberator"), his wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself. Dionysus on the Derveni krater

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