Silver Coin
- Title:
- Silver Coin
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Date:
- 323-281 BCE
- Site:
- Thrace, Greece
- Location:
- Thrace, Greece
- Country:
- Greece
- ID Number:
- CNC_0009
- Negative Number:
- 9
- File Name:
- CNC_0009.tif
- Denomination:
- Drachma
- Obverse:
- Head of young Heracles right, with lion skin, dotted border.
- Reverse:
- BAΣIΛEΩΣ LΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ : Zeus seated left on stool, leaning with left left hand on sceptre and holding eagle right on extended right hand, below which forepart of griffin left
below stool, pentagram
crescent under lion. - Culture:
- Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- silver (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 17 mm (millimeters, diameter)
4.28 g (grams, weight) - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes
metadata may not be complete in all cases. - Bibliography:
- D.R. Sear, Greek Coins and Their Values, p.634 no.6812
McClean Greek Coins, Vol.2, text p.189 no.4483, plates p.167 no.23-24 - 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.