Description: Moesia, Istros, 4th century BC. AR Drachm. Two young male heads inverted / ΙΣΤΡΙΗ; sea-eagle standing on dolphin left and attacking it with its beak.

Diameter: AR17 mm

Weight: 5,74 g

Grade: VF/aVF

Attribution: BMC 13

Commentary: sharp details, minute green deposits on obverse, reverse slightly off-center, ethnic very flat

History: Wiliam C. Saslaw and Paul Murdin of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge suggest that the unusual, inverted and anti-parallel heads actually symbolize the sun god Apollo and relates to the nearly total eclipse of the sun, visible in Istros in 434 BC.

Article Number: 020-08-03-41652