- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.1943
- Title
- Hemidrachm of Megalopolis
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 330-270 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Arkadia, Megalopolis (Arkadia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/169758
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 2.84 g
- Die Axis
- 1
- Denomination
- hemidrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: I behind head
- Reverse Inscription: Monogram to l. and I to r.
- Provenance
- Robinson coll. 199; Dengate, p. 61, 3.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- BMC 52; cf. BCD Pelop 1522-3
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1943
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus l.
Reverse: Pan seated l. on rock covered in mantle and holding lagobolon
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