Coin of Ephesos Motif Cufflinks

$60.00 at The Getty Museum.

These cufflinks feature motifs from a coin in the Getty Museum’s antiquities collection. - Item#:  JPGT031This silver tetradrachm (four-drachma coin) is stamped on the obverse with a bee within a dotted border, with the Greek letters ‘epsilon’ and ‘phi’, to either side.The bee, stag, and palm are all emblems of Ephesos, a Greek city on the west coast of Turkey. This city was an important center of worship for the Greek goddess Artemis, and the images on Ephesian coinage typically promote this association.The…