Silver Coin
- Title:
- Silver Coin
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Date:
- 277-239 BCE
- Site:
- Syria
- Location:
- Syria
- Country:
- Syria
- ID Number:
- CNC_0312
- Negative Number:
- 312
- File Name:
- CNC_0312.tif
- Denomination:
- Tetradrachm
- Obverse:
- Macedonian shield, in center of which horned head of Pan left
pedum on shoulder
double cirlce around head
shield decorated with seven crescents, within each a six-pointed star
single plain border. - Reverse:
- BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY : Athena Alkis standing left, wearing helmet and aegis, holding shield in left hand and thunderbolt in right hand
in field left, Macedonian helmet with crest and cheek-piece
monogram in field right. - Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- silver (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 32 mm (millimeters, diameter)
17.03 g (grams, weight) - Notes:
- Antigonus Gonatas
Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes
metadata may not be complete in all cases. - Bibliography:
- Sear, Greek Coins, (1979) p.630
Grose, The McClean Greek Coins, Vol.2, p.70
Head, Historia Nummorum, (1977), p.231, pl.149. - 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.