Silver Coin (Mint: Tarsus)
- Title:
- Silver Coin (Mint: Tarsus)
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Date:
- 298-295 BCE
- Site:
- Tarsus, Turkey
- Location:
- Tarsus, Turkey
- Country:
- Turkey
- ID Number:
- CNC_0100
- Negative Number:
- 100
- File Name:
- CNC_0100.tif
- Denomination:
- Drachm
- Mint:
- Tarsus
- Obverse:
- Winged Nike facing left, standing on the prow of a galley, blowing a trumpet, holding mast with left hand
border of dots worn. - Reverse:
- BAΣIΛEΩΣ (below) ΔHMHTPIOU (right) : Poseidon striding left, nude viewed from behind, chlamys hanging from his extended left arm, wielding a trident in his right hand. "A" in field left, "N" within circle in field right
border of dots. - Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- silver (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 18 mm (millimeters, diameter)
4.11 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:
- Seaby, Greek Coins and Their Values, p.65, #558
Sear, Greek Coins and Their Values, Vol.2, p.628, #6765
Forrer, Descriptive Catalogue of Sir Herman Weber Collection, #2171
Nowell, The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes, 44
Gross, Catalogue of the McLean Collection of Greek Coins, Vol.2, p.68, #3575, plate 133, #3
B.V. Head, Hist.Num., p.230, fig.141. - 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.