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Verica Cornucopiae Victory. Southern Region. c.AD10-40. Celtic silver unit. 12mm. 1.31g.
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Verica Cornucopiae Victory. c.AD10-40. Silver unit. 12mm. 1.31g. Thyrsus between two cornucopiae, two-handled wine cup below, COM MIF around, beaded border./ Long-robed figure seated right, with left hand raised, VE[RI]CA around. ABC 1241, VA 531, BMC 1393-419, S 134. Good EF, as minted, neat flan of good quality silver, bold strike. An exceptional example of exquisite beauty: sharp, shapely and shimmering. Ex Neil Bundle collection, ex Gloucestershire collection, ex Henry Francois. SCARCE
This superb silver coin of Verica is all about the ‘son of Commios’ bringing victory and prosperity to his people – about winning and having a good time, especially with the help of a big two-handled cup of fine Italian wine. A word or two about the pine-cone wand (a thyrsus) standing up in the cup: “The thyrsi (Greek thyrsoi), or wands, carried by mythological bacchantes during the celebration of their ecstatic rites in honour of Dionysos are similarly wondrous objects, for like Poseidon’s trident or Hermes’s caduceus they are magical conduits. If a celebrant strikes the ground with her thyrsus, milk or wine or honey pours forth, and if she strikes a man with it, he is wounded as though by a weapon. Honey flows from them (Euripides Bacchae 704-713, 762-764). The magical properties of the thyrsi do not inhere in the objects themselves, but rather the thyrsi become temporarily magical channelers because of the presence of the god, whose power flows through them. As a physical object the thyrsus is a different thing at different times. In the classical period it is a stalk of fennel with ivy leaves attached at the top, but stylized representations of thyrsi by vase painters make them appear to be pine cones, which in later times they are thought by some authors to be.” (William Hansen, Classical Mythology, Oxford 2005, 328) The reverse of this coin was copied from a denarius of Mark Antony, 40 BC (Sear RCV 1471, Crawford 520/1).
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Verica Cornucopiae Victory. c.AD10-40. Silver unit. 12mm. 1.31g. Thyrsus between two cornucopiae, two-handled wine cup below, COM MIF around, beaded border./ Long-robed figure seated right, with left hand raised, VE[RI]CA around. ABC 1241, VA 531, BMC 1393-419, S 134. Good EF, as minted, neat flan of good quality silver, bold strike. An exceptional example of exquisite beauty: sharp, shapely and shimmering. Ex Neil Bundle collection, ex Gloucestershire collection, ex Henry Francois. SCARCE
This superb silver coin of Verica is all about the ‘son of Commios’ bringing victory and prosperity to his people – about winning and having a good time, especially with the help of a big two-handled cup of fine Italian wine. A word or two about the pine-cone wand (a thyrsus) standing up in the cup: “The thyrsi (Greek thyrsoi), or wands, carried by mythological bacchantes during the celebration of their ecstatic rites in honour of Dionysos are similarly wondrous objects, for like Poseidon’s trident or Hermes’s caduceus they are magical conduits. If a celebrant strikes the ground with her thyrsus, milk or wine or honey pours forth, and if she strikes a man with it, he is wounded as though by a weapon. Honey flows from them (Euripides Bacchae 704-713, 762-764). The magical properties of the thyrsi do not inhere in the objects themselves, but rather the thyrsi become temporarily magical channelers because of the presence of the god, whose power flows through them. As a physical object the thyrsus is a different thing at different times. In the classical period it is a stalk of fennel with ivy leaves attached at the top, but stylized representations of thyrsi by vase painters make them appear to be pine cones, which in later times they are thought by some authors to be.” (William Hansen, Classical Mythology, Oxford 2005, 328) The reverse of this coin was copied from a denarius of Mark Antony, 40 BC (Sear RCV 1471, Crawford 520/1).
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