Steven Battelle’s Ancient Greek Coin from Corinth, 375-300BC featuring Pegasus flying on the front side and the helmeted head of Athena on the backside. Coin is set in granulated 22kt gold pendant and bail with a small diamond set in the bail. Comes with certificate of authenticity.

The City of Corinth and Pegasus: Corinth, situated in the northeast corner of the Peloponnesus on the Isthmus of Corinth, was one of the largest cities in ancient Greece and a rival of Athens. The city controlled overland access to the Peloponnesus and to continental Greece, as well as the maritime ways to the East and West of the Mediterranean. In time, Corinth started to create a string of daughter cities, colonies such as Leukas. Ambrakia (Arta), Anactorium, Dyrrhachium (Durazzo) and even Terina in southern Italy and Syracuse in Sicily. All these cities followed Corinth's monetary system. Coinage was essential to Corinth as an important commercial center. After Acgina, Corinth was one of the earliest cities in Greece to strike and use coins, beginning in the 7th century BC. Her silver staters, the "colts" or "poloi" (in Greek), issued from the earliest times, featured the winged Pegasus, wondrous horse of Greek mythology, and the helmeted head of Athena, goddess of wisdom. The addition of control marks, symbols and figures began appearing on the reverse field of this coinage around 415 BC. The purpose of these little symbols, in a great variety of shapes and figures, has long been inconclusively debated. Nevertheless, their forms are clear enough to be identified, and thus we can admire the varied series of items, such as weapons, birds, animals, sea creatures, and mythological figures. Pegasus, the winged horse was born from the blood of the gorgon Medusa and was said to have been fathered by Poseidon, god of the sea. He was eventually tamed by Bellerophon near the fountain of Peirene and was chosen as the symbol for a number of Greek coinage types. It was especially appropriate for the city of Corinth which was believed to have been the city of Bellerophon.