Tetradrachm from Germany | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1820

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 15.9 g, 6:00, 24.1 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Bequest of Dr. Jonathan Edwards, Jr., B.A. 1863
Accession Number: 2001.87.30506
Geography: Made in Germany
Culture: German
Period: 19th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Head of Alexander III r. wearing lion skin

Reverse Description: ALEXANDROU, enthroned Zeus l. with scepter and eagle, sign in l. field

Provenance

Dr. Jonathan Edwards, Jr., to 1887; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1887–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Sir George F. Hill, Becker the Counterfeiter (Chicago: Obol International, 1977), 66, no. 47, pl. 3

Object copyright

Additional information

coins, money, tetradrachms

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