Coin from Magnesia ad Sipylum Artist: Unknown
Mint: Magnesia ad Sipylum (Lydia)

190–27 B.C.

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Copper

Dimensions

10.31 g, 12:00, 23 mm

Credit Line

Ruth Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2004.6.2887

Geography

Made in Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia

Culture

Greek

Period

2nd–1st century B.C.

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Head of Herakles, wearing fillet, to r.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Athena, wearing helmet, standing to l., holding Nike, with shield resting at feet r.
Provenance
Majestic, Großostheim, Germany, January 1997; Professor Dr. Peter Robert Franke and Leonore Franke, Munich, 1997–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

coins, money

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