Serpentarium Mundi by Alexei Alexeev The Ancient Ophidian Iconography Resource (Mundus Vetus, 3000 BC - 650 AD)
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Figure III-6-tre-017. Silphium plant (Ferula communis, the giant fennel) and rearing snake beside (mint's control mark?).

Material: Denomination
(view):
Mint: Issuer/Authority: Historical Period,
Date:
Collection:
Silver Didrachm
(reverse)
Cyrene,
Cyrenaica
Uncertain Early Hellenistic,
308-277 BC
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Source-Image(s): Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Münzkabinett (www.ikmk.at; © Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien): Inventory № GR 26191. The full list of numismatic and exonumic images' sources is available on the Coins introductory page.

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