- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.1913
- Title
- Drachm of Pale (Kephallenia)
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 375-325 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Pale (Kephallenia)
- Period
- Classical period, Late
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170805
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.18 g
- Die Axis
- 3
- Denomination
- drachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: ΠΑ
- Reverse Inscription: KEΦΑΛΟΣ
- Provenance
- Acq. Spink, 1951.
- 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
- 1.1965.1913
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obverse: Head of Persephone to l. wearing corn wreath and with Π-Α around neck
Reverse: Kephalos sitting to r. on rock (holding spear?), KEΦΑΛΟΣ (not very legible)
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