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Image Enlarged Eleusis, Attica Mid 20's-19 BCE AE14 (reduced AE2/half unit) Augustan Issue Obverse: Veiled head of Demeter R., border of dots Reverse: A field L., Q over E R. field. Poppy between two crossed wheat ears Svor. 104.38-45 AA150 Lindgren II 150 (this coin) Eleusian Festival Coinage was minted under the Central Authority of Athens. The images pertain not to Eleusis, but to the Myth (as Triptolemos) and ritual paraphernalia (sacrificial piglet and staff of bound myrtle boughs) of the Greater Mysteries of Eleusis. |