Ancient Greece - AR Persic (standard drachm) - Circa 300-100 BCE

Denomination:  AR Persic                                                                           

Date:  Circa 300-100 BCE

Mint:  Ancient Greece                                                               

Mount: 14K gold

Weight: 3.77 gm                                                                          

Grade: VF details.

Description: Amisos as Peireus, Pontos. AR Persic standard drachm. Circa (300-100) BCE.  Obverse: Turreted, draped bust of Hera right. Obverse: Owl with spread wings. A to lower left, IIA monogram.

History: Hera is the wife and one of the three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Olympian queen of the gods and the goddess of women and marriage. She was also a goddess of the sky and starry heavens. She was usually depicted as a beautiful woman wearing a crown and holding a royal, lotus-tipped staff. Sometimes she held a royal lion of had a hawk as her familiar. 

Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos (a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Greek Goddesses). 

Properly speaking, Hera was thinly really married goddess among the Olympians, for the marriage of Aphrodite with Ares can scarcely be taken into consideration; and hence she is the goddess of marriage and the birth of children.

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