Both sides of an irregularly shaped silver-gray coin with relief decoration on each side.　
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On the side of the coin on the left is a turtle as seen from above, with five circles on its shell and two lateral forming a T shaped pattern, flippers jutting out of the four corners of the shell, head and tail from the top and bottom. The other side of the coin depicts two triangle and three irregular rectangles indented in the coin.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.1965.1658
Title
Stater of Aigina
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
470 - 457 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Aigina (Aegina)
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/170648

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Metal
AR
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
12.04 g
Die Axis
not assignable
Denomination
stater

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robinson coll.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
Object Number
1.1965.1658
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Turtle with five "buttons" or scutes on the back and two lateral ones in a T pattern; flippers.
Rev.: Skew incuse reverse consisting of two triangles and three irregular rectangles

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Verification Level

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