- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.1574
- Title
- Tetradrachm of Athens
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 495 BCE - 480 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170982
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 16.7 g
- Die Axis
- 4
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: ATHE
- Provenance
- Robinson Coll.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Seltman G ii, 246 (this coin)
- 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
- 1.1965.1574
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Helmeted head of Athena r.;
Rev: Owl standing facing with closed wings in incuse square; to l., olive sprig.
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
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