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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9569694, member: 5833&quot;]There is a grain stalk in her hair.&nbsp; It is immature, as Persephone is an immature version of her mother.&nbsp; Which is not to say that she never appears with a ripened stalk, but she&#039;s only distinguishable from Demeter then if it has her name on the coin.&nbsp; Demeter, Persephone &amp; Arethusa get sort of jumbled up on the coinage of Syracuse &amp; the other islands in the area of Sicily, which is where the abduction of Persephone took place.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Usually</i>, Demeter has ripe grain, a diadem and/or an occipite veil, no earrings.&nbsp; Persephone, an unripe stalk of grain, bi-or tripart earrings, no dolphins.&nbsp; Arethusa, earrings, dolphins, no grain.&nbsp; Usually, but not always.</p><p><br /></p><p>See a couple of really nice examples in the slide show here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/08/alpha-bank-presents-the-other-side-of-the-coin/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/08/alpha-bank-presents-the-other-side-of-the-coin/" rel="nofollow">https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/08/alpha-bank-presents-the-other-side-of-the-coin/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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