Coin of Șilindia type

Coin of Șilindia type is held by Tarii Crisurilor Museum. Museum description: obverse: On the obverse appears a human head, with beard and laurel wreath, reproduction of the effigy of Zeus, facing right.

The hair is rendered by several curls situated above the forehead, by a long, arched lock originating above the ear and reaching the neckline, and by a series of other locks originating from the crown of the head and going under the wreath formed of two rows of ovoid ornaments. The ear is represented by a thickened arc of a circle. Under the forehead line, in a pronounced depression, appears the eye: a dot framed by two small lines joined at an angle, suggesting the eyelids.

The forehead line continues with that of the nose, the lips are rendered by two globules (the upper one joined to the curl that renders the mustache), the beard by arched tufts and the neck by a triangle.; reverse: On the reverse, the rider, depicted facing right, holds one hand bent behind his back, and before him appears a branch ( The museum record gives measurements diameter: 23.9x24.3; mass: 13.65. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.