1.1965.1624: Emergency stater of Athens
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1624
- Title
- Emergency stater of Athens
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 406 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Classical period, Late
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170874
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold
- Metal
- AV
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 8.58 g
- Die Axis
- 9
- Denomination
- stater
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: ATHE
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Found in Greece prior to 1941-45 according to Dewing's notes. Acquired in New York in 1946.
Published by E.S.G. Robinson, "Some Problesm in the Later FIfth Century Coinage of Athens", ANSMN 9 (1960), pp.1-15, pl, 1, 10 (this coin).
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Robinson, MN 9 (1960), p.9 n.16, pl.I 10
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
- 1.1965.1624
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena r., helmet adorned with olive leaves (frontal eye developing some profile characteristics)
Reverse: Owl standing r. holding olive sprig in talons; to l., olive sprig. - Commentary
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This is one of only four gold staters known from the emergency coinage issued in 406 BC by Athens at then end of the Peloponnesian War. After the disastrous Sicilian expedition in 413 BC and the Spartan capture of Deceleia in Attica, the silver mines of Laurion were no longer accessible and Athens resorted to striking gold and based silver. See E.S.G. Robinson, "Some problems in the Later Fifth Century Coinage of Athens", ANS MN 9 (1960), pp.1-15.
One of the staters is in London, another in Oxford and the third ex Jameson 2495 and Gulbenkian was sold in Leu 86, 5-6 May 2003, lot 380
Subjects and Contexts
- Collection Highlights
- Ancient Coins
Verification Level
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