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Apollo Tetradrachm-Silver Pendant like Ancient Greek Coin-God of Music-Reverse Lyre (Kithara)-Macedonia, Olynthos (Chalkidian League) -Olynthos was one of several towns founded by the Euboian city Chalkis in the three-fingered peninsula in southern Macedonia that became known as the Chalkidike. -On the obverse is the Laureate head of Apollo facing left. The patron God of the League, the major deity of its mother city, Chalkis. -On the reverse one of his major attributes, the lyre (kithara), with six strings. Inscriptions in Greek, ΧΑΛΚΙΔΕΩΝ: of the Chalkidians, around & below. Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek & Roman religion & Greek & Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music & dance, truth & prophecy, healing & diseases, the Sun & light, poetry, & more. One of the most important & complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus & Leto, & the twin brother of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god & the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. It is handcrafted in Greece with extra care in 925 sterling silver. Its diameter size is 2.4cm & weighs approximately 9 g. This pendant is without the chain. (777A) Check our collection of silver pendants at https://www.etsy.com/shop/TalosArtifacts?ref=profile_header§ion_id=37897555 Apollo Tetradrachm-Silver Pendant Like Ancient Greek Coin-God Of Music-Reverse Lyre | Kithara-Macedonia, Olynthos | Chalkidian League
