Silver Coin (Mint: Athens)
- Title:
- Silver Coin (Mint: Athens)
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Date:
- 147-146 BCE
- Site:
- Attica, Greece
- Location:
- Attica, Greece
- Country:
- Greece
- ID Number:
- CNC_0461
- Negative Number:
- 461
- File Name:
- CNC_0461.tif
- Denomination:
- Tetradrachm
- Mint:
- Athens
- Obverse:
- Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing pendent earring, necklace, and helmet of triple-crested Attic type adorned with the protomes of four or more horses above the visor, a flying Pegasus above the raised earpiece, and a curvili-near ornament on the shell
border of dots. - Reverse:
- A Θ E : Owl right, head facing, wings closed, to left and right monograms or names of two or three magistrates: MHTPOΔΩPOΣ-MIΛTIAΔHΣ-ANTIΦANHΣ
grapes in field right, A in the amphora, ΠE below it
all within a wreath of olive. - Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- silver (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 16.41 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:
- Thompson, Margaret, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens, p.232ff, #633a, pl.66-67.
- 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.