Silver Coin (Mint: Aradus)
- Title:
- Silver Coin (Mint: Aradus)
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Date:
- 66-65 BCE
- Site:
- Aradus, Syria
- Location:
- Aradus, Syria
- Country:
- Syria
- ID Number:
- CNC_0002
- Negative Number:
- 2
- File Name:
- CNC_0002.tif
- Denomination:
- Tetradrachm
- Mint:
- Aradus
- Obverse:
- Bust of Tyche right, wearing turreted crown, hair rolled and in chignon, over which veil falling on the shoulders
dotted border. - Reverse:
- APAΔΙΩΝ : Nike advancing left, hair knotted on top of head, wears a long chiton, girt at waist and holds in right aphlaston, in left palm branch over shoulder
in field left date and mint letters: the whole in laureate wreath. - Culture:
- Phoenician
- Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- silver (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 28 mm (millimeters, diameter)
14.47 g (grams, weight) - Notes:
- Phoenician Silver Coin of Aradus with Bust of Tyche
Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes
metadata may not be complete in all cases. - Bibliography:
- Vol 26 - British Museum Catalogue of Greek Coins -- Phoenicia, p. 23-33 no. 269
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Coins Collection (in part Greek and Roman Coin Collection, #8464, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying coins, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2011 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.