Part Two

The Discipline and Doctrine of the Pythagoreans

 

The Greeks believed a mysterious race of people lived in Hyperborea, a land they placed beyond Scythia, where this gold stater was struck at Panticapaeum between c.340 and 325 B.C. It shows on its obverse the head of a satyr (or the god Pan), and on its reverse the mythical griffin with a spear in its beak.

Photo courtesy of Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.