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Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Tyche
Ancient Greek (now Syria)
80-79 BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Jazirat Arwad
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. William Nelson Pelouze
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin depicts the goddess Tyche wearing a turreted crown. On the back (reverse), the goddess Nike stands facing left while holding a palm branch.
In antiquity, the goddess Tyche symbolized cities. Her identifying feature is a crown shaped like the walls of a city. Some cities chose Tyche as their emblem, but often they also selected another divinity as their particular patron and protector.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
