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The Pegasus

The "Pegasus" was the silver coin, weighing about 8.5 grams, equivalent to an Euboean-Attic didrachm but with value of 3 drachmas, coined in the mint of Corinth since the middle of the sixth century B.C.  On the obverse there is the figure of a winged horse, with the wings points generally curved, fixed in the metal in the act of taking flight to the right or left, while on the reverse there is the goddess Athena head wearing the Corinthian helmet, taking the place of the initial square incuse variously shared, present in the most archaic series. The Pegasus and the goddess Athena, represented on the two sides of the same coin, show the close connection linking together the two main cults venerated in the city of Corinth. Outside of the same Greece, the "Pegasus" spread exclusively in the West, especially in Sicily where, between the second half of the fourth century and the beginning of the third century B.C., it became the currency commonly used in trade.

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