Coin from Phocis Mint: Phocis

ca. 299–100 B.C.

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

1.99 g, 1:00, 13.95 mm

Credit Line

Gift of the Mitchel family in honor of Professor F. W. Mitchel, B.A. 1944, M.A. 1944, Ph.D. 1954

Accession Number

2018.177.187

Geography

Made in Phocis

Culture

Greek

Period

3rd–2nd century B.C.

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Bull's head, facing, bound with sacrificial fillet.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: PHO [Grk] within laurel wreath
Provenance
Professor Fordyce W. Mitchel., Columbia, Miss., from about 1950 to 1986; Eileen McClelland Mitchel, 1986–2013; Fordyce W. Mitchel II, Magdalen Mitchel, and Henry McClelland Mitchel, 2013–2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

coins, money

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