Lot 2592. Fine and rare. Est $250.

Maximinus I Thrax AE25 of Anchialus, Thrace. 

Obv: Laureate head right 
Rev: AGXIALEWN, three female figures, wearing long dresses, standing together.

Moushmov calls them the "Three Graces standing dressed", but they are more 
likely Demeter, Persephone, and Hecate.  

Hecate figures in the story of Persephone's abduction by Hades, as the one 
who hears Persephone's cries and mediates the outcome by which Persephone 
spends alternate six month seasonal cycles in the underworld and with her 
mother Demeter.

By permission of ancientcoinart.com, February, 2004.