Tetradrachm from Myrina Artist: Unknown
Mint: Myrina (Aeolis)

2nd–1st century B.C.

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

16.62 g, 1:00, 39 mm

Credit Line

Ruth Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2004.6.2589

Geography

Made in Myrina, Aeolis

Culture

Greek

Period

2nd–1st century B.C.

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Head of Apollo, wearing laurel wreath and with two locks of hair hanging down neck, to r.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Apollo advancing r., holding patera and laurel-branch with fillets; omphalos and amphora at r., monogram at l.; all within laurel wreath
Provenance
Professor Dr. Peter Robert Franke and Leonore Franke, Munich, from about 1960 to 2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

coins, money, tetradrachms

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