1985.350.55: Coin of Lakedaimon
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.350.55
- Title
- Coin of Lakedaimon
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 50-35 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lakedaimon (Lakonia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period, Late
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/168192
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.55 g
- Die Axis
- 7
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Reverse Inscription: Λ - Α / Α with circle at apex - ΚA monogram
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Grunauer XV Series 18; BCD Pelop 893.3
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of H. Bartlett Wells, Class of 1929
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.350.55
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obverse: Heads of the two Dioscuri to r. wearing laureate pilei
Reverse: Two amphorae with inscription across field, all within wreath
Verification Level
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